From: Jim Gilmore (jgilmore@ptd.net)
Date: Sun Oct 03 2004 - 13:27:30 PDT
Bruce wrote
>Sonny, "Deuce and a half" is the common slang for the 2.5 ton.
While this is true for recent times, during WW II this was not the common nick name for the 2 1/2 ton cargo trucks. I have yet to find a wartime reference to the truck as a "Deuce & 1/2". Most were called a "6 by 6" or "6 by" or most common, 2 1/2 ton . Solders of that time usually referred to vehicles by their tonnage rating, ie. "four ton wrecker" for a Diamond T wrecker.
Jim Gilmore
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