That is one hell of a beast. What a size and what a target.
I cannot believe the tiny width of track tread and the low belly ground clearance and cannot help but think any sticky beach or mud would ground it. Yet the design lasted for years so clearly not.
The LVT-4 looked much more convincing, but clearly not….
It did also baffle me how the thing was propelled through the water. Everything I Googled told me about the Continental V-12 engine, but not what that drove. Surely not a propeller, not a water jet, and it couldn't be the tracks as the upper return is just as submerged as the lower (unlike a LVT-4).
Except the upper track is enclosed I now learn. That I need to think over however. But it must have worked, however much I am convinced it simply could not move in water, nor drive up any wet beach. Yet it did…….
Very wise of the passengers to ride up top whatever