page_title: Dodge WC series
section_title: ​3⁄4-ton Ambulances
hierarchical_section_title: Dodge WC series / Descriptions — Three-quarter-ton models / ​3⁄4-ton Ambulances
caption_attribution_description: Dodge WC54 Field Ambulance (1943) (owner Glen Rummery). Hoodnumber USA 731664
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-54
  The WC-54 Truck, 3/4 ton, 4x4 Ambulance, Dodge (G502), was produced as an ambulance, but a few were modified to serve as radio/telephone trucks with the US Signal Corps. A total of 26,002 WC-54 units were built from 1942 through 1944, after which the ambulance was redesigned, and replaced by the WC-64 in 1945.
  Length: 16 ft 3 in / 4,95 m
  Height: 7 ft 6 in / 2,30 m
  Weight: 5,920 lb / 2 685 kg
  Width: 6 ft 6 in / 1,98 m
  Payload: 1,800 lb / 816 kg
  WC-64
  The WC-64 KD Truck, 3/4 ton, 4x4 Ambulance Dodge (G502) was an ambulance based on the same chassis as the WC-54 but with a knock-down body designed to increase the number of vehicles that could be shipped at the same time. The rear boxes were supplied in two major parts: lower and upper. The lower part of the box was attached to the chassis at the factory, while the upper box was crated for installation in the field. 3,500 Knock-down ambulances were built between the beginning of 1945 and the end of the war, the great majority (2,531 units) went to allies under lend-lease: 
  1,123 to the free French forces
  644 to Great Britain
  475 to China
  149 to Brazil and 82 to other Latin American republics
caption: 1943 WC-54 Ambulance
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