Thanks for information about DUKWs still being in use in the 1960s by the USMC. I’ll add that tidbit to my info about it. I thought all the DUKWs had been purged from the military inventory after WWII>
I don’t know exactly who it was, but some outfit or another was still using them. There were four or five of them that they used to “play around” with on what passed for beaches at Little Creek, in the late 60s/early 70s.
They were sure fun to watch in action, whether in the water or driving on land. When I was a kid I though the idea of a car that could drive in the water (or a boat that could drive on the land) was just about the coolest thing in the world... ...apart from fighter jets, of course.
I LOVED growing up in a military “town”.