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Would you like to have a teeshirt like the one above? For a $25.00 donation to Camp Gordon Johnston Association, one can be mailed to you. Please specify size: Small, Medium, Large, extra large, or *extra-extra-large. Allow approximate two weeks for delivery. If item is out of stock you will be notified as such and expect it to take about six weeks for delivery.
* Note: 2XX size is $30.00. At the museum shirts are $15.00 each except 2XX is $20.00 |
On the front it reads: duck 1 (duhk)
n. or plural ducks, duck: any of a large number ofrelatively small swimming fowl (family Anatidae)
with a flat bill, short neck and legs, and webbed feet.“If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.” -(paraphrased, James Whitcomb Riley). Camp Gordon Johnston WWII Museum, Carrabelle, Florida.
On the back it reads: duck 1 (duhk)
n. popularly called the DUCK, a six-wheel-drive amphibious truck used for transporting goods and troops over land and water during World WarII. The DUKW was also used in amphibious attacks in the Pacific, North Africa, and the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.
The designation of DUKW is not a military acronym. The name comes from the model naming terminology used by GMC; the “D” indicates a vehicle designed in 1942, the “U” meant utility (amphibious),” the “K” indicated all wheel drive and the “W” indicated two powered rear axles. So, if it rolls like a DUKW, floats like a DUKW, and hums like a DUKW, then it probably is a DUKW. - (sorry Mr. Riley) Camp Gordon Johnston WWII Museum, Carrabelle, Florida |
