AFV Club Military 1/35 US M54A2 5-Ton 6x6 Cargo Truck Kit

Affected by her isolationism at the onset of WWII, United States lagged behind her European counterparts in both size and technology. It was not until the dawn of WWII that the United States realized involvement in the conflict was inevitable and began to build up its military. As part of that build up in 1939, the United States Army issued a specification for a medium-sized military transport truck. It was required to be an all weather, all terrain, six-wheeled pickup with a 2.5-ton weight capacity. It was also required to be able to transport a fully equipped platoon of infantry, tow light artillery pieces, and be of a design that could be easily mass produced. Since the United States had a robust and established automotive industry, it was able to deliver over eight hundred thousand military transport units of various models in relatively short time from design to mass production. These mid-sized vehicles formed the backbone of military transport logistics for the United States and