M16 Halftrack - Grand Bunker Museum - Normandy.

The M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage
also known as the M16 half-track
was an American
self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon built during WW II

It was equipped with four 50 caliber
M2 Browning machine guns in an M45 Quadmount

The chassis was derived from the T1E2 chassis
an earlier version of the M13
Based on an M3 half-track chassis
it replaced the M13 MGMC half-track after early 1944

This prototype was originally designated as the T61 MGMC
but after trials at Aberdeen it was accepted
as the M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage

A few corrections were made on a pilot vehicle in early 1943
before production started

2700 were produced by White Motor Company
from May 1943 to March 1944
with 568 M13 MGMCs
and 109 T10 half-tracks
being converted into M16s as well

As aircraft became more advanced
the usefulness of the M16 was reduced
The M16 saw service with U.S. forces
in the Italian Campaign
and Operation Overlord
and the Ardennes Offensive

In the Korean War it was relegated primarily
to the ground-support role
being put out of service in the U.S. Army in 1954

The M16 was also used by the
UK - Free French Forces - Nazi Germany
(Captured from the U.S.)
and in the Bundeswehr 1956 - 1962

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