VEHICLES #6a Contents US Army Liberty Truck, WWI..................p.2 Transcontinental Truck Convoys, 1919-20.....p.3 .......p.5 See also: USAMHI Vehicles-Truck RefBranch js80; dv Jun 91 US ARMY LIBERTY TRUCK, WWI A Working Bibliography Ellis, Chris. Military Transport of World War I. . . . NY: Macmillan, 1970. pp. 152-153, Plate 87. UC340E45. Brief history and drawing of Liberty Class B, 5-ton truck (converted to six wheels), 1919. Selfridge, Anna B. " The Road to Liberty: B.A. Gramm, Lima, & The `Liberty' Truck." Allen County Reporter XXXV (Nos 2-3,1989): pp. 1-124. UC374.6 S44. Timken-Detroit Axle Company. Handbook of Motor Vehicles Used by the United States Armed Forces. Detroit, MI, 1944. p. 8. UC343T5. U. S. Army Quartermaster Corps. Motor Vehicles and Trailers of the United States Army. Wash, DC: GPO, 1920. pp. 14-15 & 39. UC343U58. Description and photo. _________. Motor Transport Corps. Repair Parts Catalogue: Class "B", Standardized Military Truck. Wash, DC, 1918. 269 p. UC343A727. Includes 40 pages of drawings. Bound with Office of Quartermaster General's Parts Catalogue, Numerical Parts List and the Assembly Parts List for the Class "B" Standardized Military Truck (34, 112, 224 p., respectively). _________. Class 'B' Re-assembly Instructions: Complete Instructions Covering the Removing from Export Crate and Reassembling of U. S. Military Class 'B' Three (3) Ton Trucks. Wash, DC, 1918. 10 p. UC343A74no.6. _________. Standarizied Military Truck, Class B: Instrution Book. Wash, DC: GPO, 1918. 58 p. UC374.6S72. USAMHI Vehcle-Truck RefBranch js 1985 TRANSCONTINENTAL TRUCK CONVOYS, 1919-1920 A Working Bibliography US Army Motor Transport Corps conducted two cross-country convoys during the summers of 1919 and 1920. See: Army and Navy Journal (29 May 1920): p. 1,201; (19 Jun 1920): p. 1,307; and (13 Nov 1920): p. 300. Per. "The Army's Truckathon." Translog 11 (Aug 1980): pp. 1-4. Per. Re the 1919 convoy. Cary, Norman M. "The Use of the Motor Vehicle in the United States Army, 1899-1939." PhD dissert, Univ GA, Athens, 1980. pp. 130-132. UC340C37. Eisenhower, Dwight D. At Ease. NY: Avon Books, 1967. Chap XI. E836A3. Fourth Annual Report of the United States Council of National Defense, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1920. Wash, DC: GPO, 1920. pp. 18-24. D570.8C7A4. Graf, William S. "The Great Overland March." Soldiers 30 (Oct 1975): pp. 47-51. Per. Graves, Ernest. "The Motor Truck and the Military Road." Infantry Journal SVI (May 1920): pp. 955-957. Per. McClure, Charles W. "Long Distance Motor Convoy Operation." Quartermaster Review 6 (Jul-Aug, Sep-Oct, and Nov-Dec 1926): pp. 26-32, 29-30 & 29-32. Per. Smartt, Vaughn. "1919: The Interstate Expedition." Constructor (Aug 1973). p. 18-25. MiscFiles -"Vehicles". U. S. War Dept. War Department Annual Reports, 1920. Vol I. Wash, DC: GPO, 1921. UA24A1.1920v.1. See pp. 1,789-1,790 and 1921 Rpt of SecWar, p. 151 (UA24A1.1921). "The 1919 U. S. Army Trans-Continental Motor Convoy." Indiana Military History Journal 11 (May 1986): pp. 9-21. Per. Includes Dwight D. Eisenhower's after-action report of 3 Nov 1919. TRANSCONTINENTAL TRUCK CONVOYS p.2 See also two photograph collections that pertain to the 1919 convoy: - World War I Signal Corps Collection: "Motor Transport Corps Cross-Country Trip." 2 boxes. - Harry C. DeMars World War I Veterans Survey Collection #3567. Photo album and printed material on the trip.