G917T (produced in 1939) German army truck

The main part of the vehicle fleet of the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War consisted of 3-ton trucks. One of the most numerous of them was the G917T model, which was produced from 1939 at the German Ford plants in Cologne. This truck was equipped with a V8 engine and only had rear wheel drive.

G917T trucks were widely used in all branches of the German army until the end of the war everywhere - in Polish and French campaigns, on the Soviet-German front, in North Africa, Italy. In total, about 25,000 G917T trucks were produced at German factories in 1939-1941.