Looking Back 100 Years: Military Trucks

CCJ Staff (CCJ)

Jan 21, 2014

This feature from July, 1914, on military trucks proved to be eerily prescient: Storm clouds were gathering in Europe and the very next month World War I would begin in Europe — an event which many historians cite as the beginning of the Modern Age.

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