Amphibious alligator tank
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Description
View of U.S. Marine amphibious alligator tank. Label on back: "Like a battle-maddened antediluvian monster crashing its wallowing way out of a primeval swamp to get at its enemy is this 'alligator tank' of the United States Marines, proving that it can go anywhere, in a test amid the bayou-splashed Florida swamps where never another kind of battle-tank in the world could navigate without bogging down." Stamped on back: "Official photograph, U.S. Marine Corps." Handwritten on back: "Amphibious vehicles."
Details
- Creator:
- United States. Marine Corps
- Resource ID:
- na032440
- Subject:
- Motor vehicles, Amphibious
- Tanks (Military science)
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1942-1945
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Amphibious vehicles--Tanks, trucks, Ducks, tractors, cars, etc., 85:15
- Negative Number:
- 8896-13
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.