Conceived as part of a Top Secret project to disrupt Nazi Germany's
atomic bomb program, the hastily developed Studebaker Weasel went on to
one of, if not THE most successful of the wartime all-terrain vehicles.
Designed with light weight to facilitate both air-dropping and
efficient, high-speed operation in the snow, the vehicles were soon
found to have excellent performance in the mud.
Always amphibious, the later models were equipped with flotation tanks
on each end and dual rudders in the rear for even more efficient
operation in the water. Weasels were used on numerous fronts during
WWII, were once again deployed in Korea, by the French in Vietnam, and
numerous outposts during the Cold War. These pages provide an overview
of the development, and a detailed look at the deployment and the
machines themselves, of these iconic, all-terrain vehicles.