page_title: DUKW
section_title: Civilian use
hierarchical_section_title: DUKW / Civilian use
caption_attribution_description: English: The Seafair Pirates and their converted DUKW, Moby Duck. Photographed by Walter Taucher
context_page_description: The DUKW is a six-wheel-drive amphibious modification of the ​2 ¹⁄₂-ton CCKW trucks used by the U.S. military during World War II and the Korean War.
  Designed by a partnership under military auspices of Sparkman & Stephens and General Motors Corporation, the DUKW was used for the transportation of goods and troops over land and water. Excelling at approaching and crossing beaches in amphibious warfare attacks, it was intended only to last long enough to meet the demands of combat. Surviving DUKWs have since found popularity as tourist craft in marine environments.
context_section_description: Many were used after WWII by civilian organizations such as the police, fire departments, and rescue units.
  The Australian Army lent two DUKWs and crew to Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions for a 1948 expedition to Macquarie Island. Australian DUKWs were used on Antarctic supply voyages until 1970. From 1945 to 1965, the Australian Commonwealth Lighthouse Service supply ship Cape York carried ex-Army DUKWs for supplying lighthouses on remote islands.
  One DUKW is in use by the Technisches Hilfswerk (THW) of Germersheim in Germany,  a civil protection organisation.
caption: The "Moby Duck" at a parade in Seattle (2006)
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