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I've just interviewed Mike Cecil on that very subject for the upcoming Carrier DVD, although not in complete detail...
The CMP half track was one of several experiments to create a specialised vehicle for beach transport during landings in the island campaigns. Other vehicles used were Ford/MH and International Harvester. It used adapted Carrier bogies and tracks with a Chev differential, but after trials was abandoned because of relatively slow road speed, noise and the unsuitability of steel tracks on hard road surfaces, and at any rate the US-built half tracks with their rubber tracks and more powerful engines were becoming more available in the area so the CMP and other indiginous half-tracks were abandoned. Not sure of the date but it has steel doors rather than the canvas covered lightweight doors which would indicate 43 or early 44.
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