Remembering the AFKX-352 Ordnance Shop Van
Apr 08, 2022
3 minutes
by David Doyle
Military History Institute
Making available mobile maintenance assets to armies operating in the field Is not a new development. Farriers long traveled with armies, fitting and applying shoes to horses, for example. As the U.S. Army became increasingly mechanized, field forces improvised various mobile shop equipment, until finally in October 1939 the Ordnance Field Service School began an effort to standardize this type of equipment. The school at that time designed and procured a set of three styles trucks for
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