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Attilio Gatti, an Italian, World War I army officer, author, film-maker and explorer first set out to explore Africa in 1924. By the time he set out for his "final expedition" in 1938 he had already led 9 previous expeditions, one of those resulting in the 1927 film Siliva the Zulu. It was because of these films, plus his adventure writings in magazines like the Saturday Evening Post that he was able to obtain financing to further his travels. Exploits if his 10th expedition were later published in 1945 as South of the Sahara.

For this expedition into to Africa Congo, International Harvester specially produced the "Jungle Yachts" which were trucks and truck/trailer combinations. The 5 vehicles combined traversed 66,000 miles, almost none of it on pavement, and only experienced minor breakdowns, totaling $38.00.

To prevent the expedition from becoming a political nightmare, Gatti pulled his expedition out of Africa after only 15 months when WWII broke out. www.paper-dragon.com/1939/explorers.html
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fish hatchery stocking train.
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This promotional booklet was just a small part of the hoopla
surrounding the mighty Snow Cruiser in 1939. Scientists in Antarctica
were going to live and work in the gargantuan vehicle, driving across
the harsh polar landscape on its huge tires -- or that was the plan,
anyway. But when the expedition landed, things didn't turn out quite
as expected. For what did happen, see page 63.
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CHICAGO
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http://undead.ru/allwheel/snowcruiser/index.shtml

The specifications for the vehicle were daunting. It would have a range of five thousand miles and room for a crew of five and food and supplies for a year. The crew would include an airplane pilot, because the cruiser would carry a plane on its back for photography and mapping. Finally, it would have to be able to cross small crevasses; otherwise it would never make it through the first hundred miles.
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Let's see if I got this right.
The US M3 medium cruiser tanks of WW2 were named Grant and Lee. The main distinguishing characteristic being that the Lee had the small .30 caliber Browning machine-gun turret on top of the off-set 37mm gun turret that was placed on the hull with the 75mm gun sticking out the prow, right? The Grants did not have the machine-gun turret? Or have I got everything wrong and nothing makes sence anymore?
Pic: what appears to be a US WW2 M3 Lee cruiser tank with her crew bugging out.
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This is great stuff, thanks a lot.

Where do you guys keep finding these photos? Any particular site, rather than just generally Google?
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Links don't work. Anyone have any more info on these beasts? Anon is curious.

Also, this thread made me come.
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all I found so far is this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_snow_cruiser
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IIRC Dirk Pitt finds some old guy on the Antarctica, digging the snow cruiser up. The old man is in fact Clive Cussler himself, and they ride the gigantic cruiser to the sunset while listening to Metallica and Slayer.
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Forgot to mention, it was in "Atlantis Found"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_Found
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A lot of stuff comes up in Google image searches that wasn't what you were originally looking for. I follow such links and then links from those pages.
It probably doesn't hurt that I love to read History so my readings suggest search directions.

In keeping with the transportation/exploration theme....
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Wow, she was pretty, in a slightly mannish, natural kind of way.
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a wee bit pretty but a bull dyke at heart. I say that with respect since she owned the balls to match.