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Allison Parliament didn’t set out to become an internationally known Jeep celebrity. But that’s exactly what happened after a terrible road trip from the southern United States to her native Canada during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. A dual citizen of both Canada and the United States, Allison decided to travel from her home in Clanton, Alabama to visit family and friends in Ontario. a b "UK DUKWS Refurbished for Royal Marines, Upgrade Update". Jane's International Defence Review. Jane's Information Group. 30 July 1999 . Retrieved 31 August 2012. The unexpected animosity gave Allison pause; should she shut the group down and walk away? But after consideration, Allison decided she wouldn’t. The ability to make a positive impact on others was too important. Some DUKWs used in WW2 were reported to have capsized while landing at Omaha beach during the Normandy invasion. [20] [21] p. 26 The Marines in the Pacific War The Marine Corps Gazette, Volume 31 Marine Corps Association, 1947

DUKWs were initially sent to Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater, but were used by an invasion force for the first time in the European theater, during the Sicilian invasion, Operation Husky, in the Mediterranean.Decades later, the designation was explained erroneously by writers such as Donald Clarke, who wrote in 1978 that it was an initialism for "Duplex Universal Karrier, Wheeled". [7] [8]

Britain deployed DUKWs to Malaya during the Malayan Emergency of 1948–60. Many were redeployed to Borneo during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation of 1962–66. Richard Collier (1 November 2002). D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Normandy Landings. Orion Books Limited. ISBN 978-0-297-84346-7. Bishop, Chris (2002). The Encyclopedia of Weapons of WWII. Sterling Publishing Company. p.67. ISBN 1-58663-762-2 . Retrieved 24 March 2010.

Williamson Murray; Allan Reed Millett (30 June 2009). A War To Be Won: fighting the Second World War. Harvard University Press. pp.422–. ISBN 978-0-674-04130-1. In the Pacific, USMC DUKWs were used to cross the coral reefs of islands such as Saipan and Guam and the tires were not affected by the coral. [19] Clarke, Donald (1978). How It Works: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Vol.1. Marshall Cavendish. p.96. Allen, Thomas B. (August 2002). "Odd DUKW: On land and in the water, World War II's amphibian workhorse showed the skeptics a thing or two — now it shows tourists the sights". Smithsonian. Smithsonian Institution . Retrieved 7 March 2021.