DODGE BROTHERS BUILDS FOR WAR WWII TRUCKS, SHERMAN TANKS, COMMAND CARS 30674

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Made by Dodge Brothers during WWII, this film shows the various trucks, command cars, ambulances, tractors and other vehicles made during the conflict for the U.S. Army. A proving grounds for these vehicles is also shown starting around the 2 minute mark. The Chrysler foundry is seen at the 4:30 mark, producing Sherman tanks. Also shown is the precision made Sperry Gyrocompass (8 minute mark), anti-aircraft guns, radar systems, and other equipment built by Dodge during WWII. Dodge mechanics are also seen working on cars and trucks in the domestic USA that are vital for the war effort.
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  • @unclestuka8543
    @unclestuka85433 жыл бұрын

    God Bless the United States of America, the Country that keeps us a free people, long may it prevail over our adversary's.

  • @stillwater62
    @stillwater625 жыл бұрын

    The Dodge Power Wagon, that was the real pickup truck. The ones built 1946 thru 1949. I can not tell you how much I have wanted one of those.

  • @bradbutcher3984

    @bradbutcher3984

    4 жыл бұрын

    I just saw Power Wagon Military ambulance yesterday. I wanted it so bad.

  • @powerwagon3731

    @powerwagon3731

    3 жыл бұрын

    PW ended production in the US in 1968.

  • @51WCDodge
    @51WCDodge Жыл бұрын

    I have the privilige of keeping two dodges a WC51 and a WC 54. I don't own them , they belong to those who built them, and served with them. I'm just the custodian for this generation.

  • @stevejake4316

    @stevejake4316

    11 ай бұрын

    I described myself the same way with my collection. A g506 and a cckw. I would like to do some restoration work on them. Mainly because I am trying to preserve them.

  • @stevenmc56
    @stevenmc563 жыл бұрын

    I remember long ago nutten in the yard would start it was so cold dad put snowshoes on and off in the field was the old red dodge farm truck missing fenders doors and it started and dad jump started everything in the yard with it .

  • @marioncobaretti2280
    @marioncobaretti2280 Жыл бұрын

    Poor sherman was undergunned and under armored but built well with a great drivetrain

  • @PETER-rt6zt
    @PETER-rt6zt2 жыл бұрын

    Jump forward to 2022 and the idea of ' the allies' including Russia and China (as stated here at 10:02) sends a chill through my bones. Long live Democracy.!

  • @danabogue1804
    @danabogue1804 Жыл бұрын

    No other Army in the world had the capacity for transport like the U.S.! This country even supplied transport vehicles for its Allies! An Army fights on its stomach and the Germans were still using Horse drawn transport, so trying to feed the troops in the field was a logistical nightmare! For the most part, American units were well supplied, at least better than their counterparts thanks to a very robust Automotive industry in the U.S.! A major component in winning that war!

  • @outlet6989
    @outlet69893 жыл бұрын

    Tank crewman, "Wow, this thing is trying to throw me out of my seat. Is there anything I can do to stop that?" "Sure. Tie a piece of rope under the seat and over your legs. We call it a seat rope."

  • @istoppedcaring6209
    @istoppedcaring62093 жыл бұрын

    these kinds of videos should stil be sent out on any channel and youtube, not just on youtube (with modern equipment that is)

  • @garyk8558
    @garyk8558 Жыл бұрын

    i had 2 1943 Dodge 6by6s amazing trucks i would drive them into the woods and load logs on them

  • @ejp-kd4io
    @ejp-kd4io3 жыл бұрын

    I love my 1943 WC52

  • @MrHeadshot1982
    @MrHeadshot19827 жыл бұрын

    I Love to have 1940s Dodge.

  • @stephenarling1667

    @stephenarling1667

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@prevost8686, I didn't know Daimler was the owner. I thought Chrysler was taken over by a French or Italian firm.

  • @stephenarling1667

    @stephenarling1667

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Russell Gerdes I recall Chrysler and Daimler collaborated on the Crossfire. Different wheel diameters front and rear told me all I needed to know about that demented design.

  • @marioncobaretti2280
    @marioncobaretti2280 Жыл бұрын

    Pure American quality

  • @mow4ncry
    @mow4ncry Жыл бұрын

    We have one they built at the American armory museum 41 Dodge pickup

  • @11oito
    @11oito4 жыл бұрын

    I have one.....WC 51 1942....in Brazil.

  • @alanstrong3295
    @alanstrong32954 жыл бұрын

    Trucks for the wars, on many shores. Dodge. Depend on it!

  • @stevejake4316
    @stevejake431611 ай бұрын

    The nation was far more unified back then. I wonder how we might fair now if we were in our grand fathers and or fathers shoes. It's really interesting to me to see this old film and wonder on the subject. What a wild Time it would have been.

  • @MatthewBaileyBeAfraid
    @MatthewBaileyBeAfraid5 жыл бұрын

    "That ‘Secret Instrument’ that places them on Target." Just imagine how powerful that advantage must have been at the time to go to such lengths to protect that ‘Secret Instrument.’ It is very likely that this film was only shown as a promotional film to Chrysler Workers.

  • @OldsVistaCruiser

    @OldsVistaCruiser

    Жыл бұрын

    It appears that the secret weapon was radar!

  • @robertwilliams2623
    @robertwilliams262310 ай бұрын

    I know a guy that has 17 dodge truck from the 40s and 50s all in running condense . Would love to own one

  • @3-DtimeCosmology
    @3-DtimeCosmology4 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful!

  • @slantfish65sd
    @slantfish65sd7 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely Awesome Superbird cool

  • @ronaldfazekas6492
    @ronaldfazekas6492 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting--the truck at 3:35 is indeed a '42, but it has the narrower box of a '41

  • @steverturnsk6190

    @steverturnsk6190

    2 ай бұрын

    It was a prototype that did not go into production.

  • @markadams7597
    @markadams7597 Жыл бұрын

    Dodge and Souza, is there any better pairing? Mopar of nocar!!

  • @flight2k5
    @flight2k54 жыл бұрын

    Chrysler was the only car company of the Detroit 3 that didn’t make equipment for the enemy.

  • @unclestuka8543

    @unclestuka8543

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ford and GM produced thousands of trucks for uncle Adolf, they said it was good for business ( at the time )

  • @flight2k5

    @flight2k5

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@unclestuka8543 yep along with Henry Ford being very anti Semitic and received an award from the nazis

  • @ClovisPoint

    @ClovisPoint

    9 ай бұрын

    @@flight2k5 He also produced a magazine ,exposing them for the crooks they were, and still are ........................to this day

  • @flight2k5

    @flight2k5

    9 ай бұрын

    @@ClovisPoint no, no he didn’t

  • @rbf100
    @rbf1004 жыл бұрын

    Ironic that Dodge, the maker of General Patton's command car and all of Chrysler has now gone to Fiat which was an Axis company.

  • @OldsVistaCruiser

    @OldsVistaCruiser

    Жыл бұрын

    The current owner of Chrysler as of 2023 is a Dutch company, Stellantis.

  • @stephenarling1667
    @stephenarling16675 жыл бұрын

    9:00 Chrysler making parts for license-built 40mm Bofors antiaircraft guns. Converting original specs to English measurements and simplifying construction for mass production must have been quite a job.

  • @edgardoromero9607

    @edgardoromero9607

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bosfors 40mm are from Sweden the use metric!!

  • @stephenarling1667

    @stephenarling1667

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@edgardoromero9607 US licensed the design from Bofors. So did many other nations.

  • @yfelwulf
    @yfelwulf4 жыл бұрын

    US car / truck manufacturers rated by quality Chrysler Ford then GM. I have used them all GM is definitely bottom of the pile.

  • 4 жыл бұрын

    Fiat/Chrysler Motors?

  • @J_Calvin_Hobbes
    @J_Calvin_Hobbes9 ай бұрын

    👍

  • @4thstooge75
    @4thstooge757 жыл бұрын

    The Dodge brothers were long gone before WW2 started. Chrysler built the Dodge trucks in WW2.

  • @edwardpate6128

    @edwardpate6128

    4 жыл бұрын

    Most at that time still very fond of the Dodge Brothers.

  • @gregleonhardt9350

    @gregleonhardt9350

    3 жыл бұрын

    Chrysler also built Sherman tanks

  • @claudiosassetti3944
    @claudiosassetti39442 жыл бұрын

    Mio papà nel dopoguerra inizio a fare il camionista con uno di questi ...

  • @claudiosassetti3944

    @claudiosassetti3944

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bellissimi !!!!

  • @Ferr1963
    @Ferr19635 жыл бұрын

    2:34 I suppose ambulances wouldn't drive on this way when carrying injured soldiers.

  • @Ebooger
    @Ebooger4 жыл бұрын

    They also made deep drawn steel bullets, which everyone said was impossible, and made them by the billions.

  • @underscorezed2247
    @underscorezed2247Ай бұрын

    what is the song that starts at 3:00?

  • @the_lost_navigator
    @the_lost_navigator5 ай бұрын

    25 secs in and I already... FDR knew about Pearl before you think the U.S. Administration did - Radar and Intelligence reports laid it out like a Baseball program. All written in Native Indian for those in the know - you just got to read the Code, Daddy-oh! Oh, those WCs were a work of Brute Beauty, eh? The G.I., Government and post-war buyer got their money's worth with a Power Wagon, that's a for sure!.

  • @deweydodo6691
    @deweydodo66914 жыл бұрын

    What / which aircraft engine did Dodge help manufacturer ?

  • @Ebooger

    @Ebooger

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wright.

  • @bradbutcher3984

    @bradbutcher3984

    4 жыл бұрын

    R-3350 Radial Aircraft Engines for the B-29.

  • @bradbutcher3984

    @bradbutcher3984

    4 жыл бұрын

    The Chrysler XIV-2220 (XI-2220 from 1944) was an experimental 2,500 hp, 2,220 cubic inch (36.4 liter) liquid-cooled inverted-V-16 aircraft engine designed by Chrysler starting in 1940. Although several aircraft designs had considered using it, by the time it was ready for use in 1945 the war was already over.

  • @bradbutcher3984

    @bradbutcher3984

    4 жыл бұрын

    usautoindustryworldwartwo.com/chrysler.htm

  • @skorpius2029
    @skorpius20298 жыл бұрын

    No comments?

  • @skorpius2029

    @skorpius2029

    7 жыл бұрын

    great video tho

  • @harrybaulz666
    @harrybaulz666 Жыл бұрын

    Lose the music

  • @PeriscopeFilm

    @PeriscopeFilm

    Жыл бұрын

    But...it's original?!

  • @yfelwulf
    @yfelwulf4 жыл бұрын

    Ah back when America was competent and knew how to manufacture. Now its all expensive and fault ridden.

  • @artyalligator4768
    @artyalligator4768 Жыл бұрын

    The Sherman was built by ford not dodge

  • @OldsVistaCruiser

    @OldsVistaCruiser

    Жыл бұрын

    They were built by a consortium of different companies. They were equipped with GM Hydramatic automatic transmissions, once only available in Oldsmobile and Cadillac cars.

  • @TheBandit7613
    @TheBandit76134 жыл бұрын

    Dreadful headache inducing blaring music. All these old WWII videos are like this. It's a GOOD thing that's gone.

  • @JohnSmith-yv6eq

    @JohnSmith-yv6eq

    Жыл бұрын

    It was "soul stirring".. fight boys fight... we will win..... the 40's equivalent of rap music...