View of soldiers in Ford GPA amphibious vehicle during maneuvers near Detroit. Label on back: "Release Sunday, March 21, 1943. The Army's most flexible new machine of the war, a Ford-built amphibian reconnaissance car, carrying soldiers equipped for combat duty, takes to the water in special tests staged recently in the Detroit area. These are the first pictures released showing how the new transportation arm of the Army appears in combat, taking off from land into a fast-flowing stream and propelling itself as a boat to the opposite shore. The boat steers in the water the same as on land. From Ford News Bureau, John W. Thompson, Director. Administration Building. Dearborn, Michigan." Handwritten on back: "Amphibious vehicles."
