Did General Motors build trucks for world war 2?

Answer 1

General Motors converted all of its production to the Allied war effort and delivered more than $12 billion worth of goods, ranging from airplanes to tanks, marine diesel engines, trucks, machine guns, and shells. No other manufacturer delivered as much material to the Allied forces.

Here is a list of the WWII General Motors War Material Production 1940-45: (This is the best list I could assemble from the contemporary sources at war's end)

198,000 Diesel engines for tanks & landing craft

206,000 Airplane engines

13,000 Complete bombers and fighter planes

97,000 Aircraft propellors

301,000 Aircraft gyroscopes

38,000 Tanks, tank destroyers and armored vehicles

854,000 Trucks, including amhibious DUKWs

190,000 Cannons

1,900,000 Machine guns and submachine guns

3,142,000 Carbines

3,826,000 Electric motors

11,111,000 Fuses

360,000,000 Ball and roller bearings

119,562,000 Shells

39,181,000 Cartridge cases

540,619,000 Grand Total