Gun DUWK

[Joe C-P]

During WW2 the USMC realized they needed a better method to bring artillery support to shore with the troops. Dragging 37mm guns through the surf was often difficult at best.
One inventor took a standard DUWK amphibious truck and adapted the upper turret of a Lee tank (sans cupola to save top weight) with its 37mm gun and coaxial machine gun, which resulted in this:





By the time production could be started other, better methods of bringing tanks to shore were being readied, so this became a one-time experiment.

This is a melding of a DUWK and some leftover parts of really old 1/72 tank models I've had since I was a wee lad, which was definitely before the 1980s. 

[Hobbes]

Poor driver, with the gun blasting away just over his head...

[zenrat]

 

[tigercat]

I can see it on Riverine operations . Maybe in Vietnam

[Modelling_Mushi]

Cool as !

But Joe, don't forget to add it to the finished builds thread.

Ciao

[Joe C-P]

Poor driver, with the gun blasting away just over his head...

That was the other reason it never went into service. 

[NARSES2]

I really do like that. Neat idea and build 

If they can stick a London Fire Brigade ladder with mg's attached onto a DUCK then that is eminently sensible and plausible.

Could see it armed with a light weight 75mm howitzer as used on the Stuart chassis ? for use in the pacific.

[Captain Canada]

Great idea ! Looks plausible to me, and actually surprised that it didn't happen ! I like the Riverine idea as well.