page_title: Dodge WC series
section_title: ​1⁄2-ton Telephone Service
hierarchical_section_title: Dodge WC series / Descriptions — Half-ton WC series / ​1⁄2-ton Telephone Service
caption_attribution_description: English: Dodge WC-39 / WC-43 / WC-50 Telephone Body / K-50 Signal Corps (engineering code T-112 / T-215; body type code USM-BT-12)
context_page_description: The Dodge WC series was a prolific range of light 4WD and medium 6WD military utility trucks, produced by Dodge / Fargo during World War II. Together with the ​¹⁄₄-ton jeeps produced by Willys and Ford, the Dodge ​¹⁄₂-tons and ​³⁄₄-tons made up nearly all of the light 4WD trucks supplied to the U.S. military in WWII – with Dodge contributing some 337,500 4WD units. Contrary to the versatility of the highly standardized jeep, which was mostly achieved through field modification, the Dodge WC‑series came in many different, purpose-built, but mechanically uniform variants from the factory, much akin to the later family of High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles. The WC series evolved out of, and was part of a more extended family of trucks, with great mechanical parts commonality, that included open- and closed-cab cargo trucks and weapons carriers, command cars, reconnaissance vehicles, ambulances, carryalls, panel vans, and telephone installation and mobile emergency / field workshop trucks.
  From 1940 to 1942, almost 82,400 G-505 ​¹⁄₂-ton 4x4 Dodge trucks were built — initially called the VC series, but the great majority in the WC series, and in more variants.
context_section_description: WC-39, WC-43, WC-50
  These models were built as technical service trucks for the U.S. Army Signal Corps, designed to install and repair hard telephone lines. Together with some earlier 1/2-ton GMC/Chevrolet models, and the later ​³⁄₄-ton WC-59 and WC-61, they were also known by the Signal Corps as the K-50 trucks.
  Of the two-wheel drive WC-39 and WC-50, only a single unit of each were built, but the four-wheel drive WC-43 numbered 370 pieces.
caption: WC-43 K-50 phone service truck
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