Do you really need to ask yourself why GM's leaders, after over 60 years since the giant event passed that's shown directly below (General Dwight Eisenhower landing on Normandy following the successful D-Day Invasion), would simply fail to release this information concerning this company's amazing history record? What it comes down to is that either the company is hiding something or they just don't care about how this historically innovative material - the creation of the DUKW is a perfect example - fits into America's important WW II record and/or modern history. Actually, it's on account of both reasons...but as lots of people know, too, GM likes keeping their corporate bones buried. Essentially, GM doesn't want to share any historically important insight related to lots of things...but this holds especially true when it comes to another milestone that clearly shows how high Harley Earl set the Detroit standard...and where GM, and the auto industry that stands around it today in Motown, are headed.

Copy of above picture caption which was taken by a GM lensman. Notice man, on left, deleted from photo:

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General Dwight D. Eisenhower, center, Supreme Allied Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, accompanied by General George C. Marshall, left, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, and Admiral King, right, atop his amphibious “DUCK” to question officers of a combat unit during his tour of Allied beachheads somewhere in Northern France. 12, June 1944.

Picture caption for photo taken by GM lensman. Interesting to note how come GM had photographers with special access:

SC 190721   THE CHIEFS MAKE INSPECTION IN FRANCE,  General Dwight D. Eisenhower,  Supreme Allied Commander, General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, and General H. Arnold, Commanding General, Army Air Forces, leave an amphibious vehicle to visit American installations on the invasion coast of France. June 14, 1944.

What follows is more evidence of how Harley Earl designed this vehicle in-house (secretly in one of his body development studios - Plant No. 2 was under his domain...top of page 4 below) at GMC Truck & Coach Division. This GM book titled "War Engineering Record" was another crucial find that continues helping connect all the dots behind what this design hero built during his wartime years in GM. Two pictures above, along with the book detailed partially below, were buried inside GM's Historical Archives.