An introduction to the Ford GPA amphibious jeep – nicknamed “Seep,” either meaning “sea-going jeep,” or referring to its limited swimming abilities – would not be complete without first presenting a brief history of its larger and much more successful brother, the GMC DUKW.
In 1941, either in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, or more likely prior to that infamous event and foreseeing the inevitably of the United States having to enter WWII, the U.S. Military pondered the problem of how to land troops and equipment from ships onto beaches and keep the landed forces supplied. Although there were various small landing craft, there was still the challenge of how to land soldiers and supplies over sandbars and coral reefs in
