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War: LANDING CRAFT
The amphibious operations in Korea depended heavily on the highly specialized landing craft, which the U.S. developed during World War II. Among those used at Inchon: LSD (Landing Ship—Dock ...
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Museum approved for WW2 amphibious landing craft
A museum will be built in Lincolnshire to house a World War Two landing craft after an application ... was dug up by volunteers in Crowland in 2021. The amphibious vehicle was brought to ...
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Shipbuilder launches amphibious warship from Mississippi yard
Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls recently launched the first Flight II San Antonio-class amphibious warship, the Virginia-based ...
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Australia And The U.S. Must Combine Their Heavy/Medium Landing Ship Programs
After World War II, with the advent of super-sized, integrated amphibious shipping, the utilitarian LST-type landing craft was de-emphasized. But the potential contribution from LST-like vessels ...
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Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles: Repairs keep historic WWII gunboat afloat
About 10,000 sailors served aboard the gunboats during World War II, including the late Bill Mason, who was instrumental in ...
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Huge US amphibious tank craft from World War II discovered buried 30 feet underground in an English field
Excavators in England have unearthed a huge World War II-era US landing craft from a field, 74 years after it went missing. In 1947, more than a dozen Buffalo LVT were transported to Crowland ...
A boy's memories of Quonset in 1943 | Opinion
There was happy news in The Journal front-page story, “North Kingstown is named World War II Heritage City" (News, Sept. 23).
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Crowland WWII Buffalo LVT dug up after 74 years underground
A World War Two landing craft buried 30ft (9m ... said he was "overwhelmed" and "over the moon". The amphibious vehicle was one of 16 deployed to protect the town in March 1947 after floods ...
Engineering News-Record13d
ENR at the Front With the Corps and Seabees in World War II
Bulldozers come first. This slogan crystallizes the role that engineering and construction played in World War II, where ...
Forbes1y
China’s New Cruise Ships Are An Overlooked Amphibious Assault Challenge
Dismissed as irrelevant after World War II, the cruise ship industry suffered ... the performance of dedicated modern-day military landing craft. America’s Wasp-class big-deck amphibious ships ...
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The US Navy and Marines will have to stop relying on British support sometime
At stake: the US fleet’s historic amphibious capability, which was instrumental in the Allied victory in World War II and ... helicopters and landing craft – across hostile beaches, they ...
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The U.S. Should Defend Taiwan, But Almost Certainly Won't Need To
Indeed, by far it would be the largest amphibious landing in history ... That leaves the PRC a bit shy of 1.4 million. To use another WWII model, despite popular lore and Churchill’s wonderful ...