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  • Landing craft/Related Articles
    {{r|Landing Craft Rocket}} {{r|Landing craft, mechanized}}
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  • Landing Craft Rocket/Definition
    ...phibious warfare]]. Along with the [[landing craft]] carrying troops, some landing craft would be filled with rows of [[multiple rocket launcher]]s, so that a massi
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  • Landing Ship Tank
    ...[[Landing craft, mechanized]] (LCM), [[Landing Craft Utility]] (LCU) and [[Landing Craft Air Cushion]] (LCAC), launched from the well decks of ships such as a [[Lan ...to operate over the horizon with aircraft, and then launching tank-capable landing craft. A 522-foot ''Newport'' had a fully loaded displacement of 8792 tons.
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  • Landing craft tank
    #Redirect [[Landing craft]]
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  • Landing Craft
    #Redirect [[Landing craft]]
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  • Landing Craft Tank
    #Redirect [[Landing craft]]
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  • LCT
    #Redirect [[Landing craft]]
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  • Landing craft, tank
    #Redirect [[Landing craft]]
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  • Landing Craft, Tank
    #Redirect [[Landing craft]]
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  • Mike boat
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  • LCU
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  • Peter boat
    #REDIRECT [[Landing craft, vehicle, personnel]]
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  • Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel
    #Redirect [[Landing craft, vehicle, personnel]]
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  • Papa boat
    #REDIRECT [[Landing craft, vehicle, personnel]]
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  • Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel
    #Redirect [[Landing craft, vehicle, personnel]]
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  • Landing craft vehicle personnel
    #Redirect [[Landing craft, vehicle, personnel]]
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  • Landing craft personnel (large)
    #REDIRECT [[Landing craft, personnel (large)]]
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  • LCPL
    #REDIRECT [[Landing craft, personnel (large)]]
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  • LCVP
    #REDIRECT [[Landing craft, vehicle, personnel]]
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  • Landing Platform Dock/Related Articles
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  • Landing Helicopter Dock/Definition
    ...]] ships with both an internal dock that can be flooded to allow smaller [[landing craft]] to swim out, as well as a flight deck for helicopters and [[STOVL]] aircr
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  • LCM (disambiguation)
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  • Landing craft, vehicle, personnel/Related Articles
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  • Landing craft, personnel (large)/Related Articles
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  • Amphibious ship/Definition
    A ship designed for [[amphibious warfare]], as opposed to a smaller [[landing craft]]
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  • Landing Platform Dock
    ...below-decks compartment that can be flooded and drained, allowing smaller landing craft to go in and out under their own power. In contrast, the "platform" is a fl ...[Amphibious Assault Ship]], because the LPD is the main carrier of large [[landing craft]], while the larger LHA/LHD delivers its troops and cargo by aircraft.
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  • Multiple rocket launcher/Related Articles
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  • Royal Marine Commando/Related Articles
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  • Austin-class/Definition
    ...of [[Landing Platform Dock]] (LPD) ships, which have both a well deck for landing craft and a flight deck for vertical takeoff aircraft and helicopters; fully load
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  • Landing craft, personnel (large)/Definition
    A WWII [[landing craft]] of exceptionally shallow draft, appropriate for certain difficult beach a
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  • Landing craft, vehicle, personnel/Definition
    A widely used light [[landing craft]] of WWII, which could land 30-40 troops, or small vehicles, on a beach, wi
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  • Landing Vehicle Tracked/Definition
    Used in WWII primarily by the [[United States Marine Corps]], a [[landing craft]] equipped both with propellers for propulsion in water and [[track (vehicl
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  • Landing craft, mechanized/Definition
    Moderately large [[landing craft]] used in amphibious warfare to transport tanks and other heavy equipment f
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  • Large Amphibious Landing Ship
    ...t anchoring, using thrusters. While in position, they discharge cargo with landing craft, helicopters, and powered rafts. ...g the smaller landing craft from the decks of transports, or having larger landing craft limit the speed of the amphibious force.
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  • Landing Craft Utility/Definition
    A large [[landing craft]] type that is not tightly dependent on an amphibious warfare ship for supp
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  • Landing Platform Dock/Definition
    ...]] ships with both an internal dock that can be flooded to allow smaller [[landing craft]] to swim out, as well as a flight deck for helicopters and [[STOVL]] aircr
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  • Landing Ship Dock/Definition
    ...ng [[amphibious warfare]] ship with a well deck that can be flooded to let landing craft enter and leave under their own power, but without the ability to operate l
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  • United States Marine Corps/Related Articles
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  • USS Alamance (AKA-75)/Definition
    ...and'' class]] [[attack cargo ship]] designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]].
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  • Landing Craft Utility
    '''Landing Craft Utility (LCU)''' are large landing craft which, as opposed to most other such craft, are not simply ship-to-shore sh ...ad been secured by Marines landed by helicopter, tilt-rotor aircraft, or [[Landing Craft Air Cushion]].
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  • San Antonio-class
    ...ge [[Landing Craft Air Cushion]] and [[Landing Craft Utility]]. Since the landing craft are slower and have a shorter range than helicopters and tilt-rotor transpo
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  • Large Amphibious Landing Ship/Related Articles
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  • Landing craft, mechanized
    {{main|landing craft}} [[Image:ONI226LCM.jpg|thumb|280px|Landing craft, mechanized. Click the image to see a larger view or to download an even la
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  • Daniel Tarr
    | portrait = Daniel Tarr, coxswain of a landing craft -a.jpg | footnotes = earned a [[Silver Star]] for his command of [[landing craft]] during [[World War II]]
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  • Landing craft, personnel (large)
    {{main|landing craft}} '''Landing craft, personnel (large)''' (LCPL) was a [[landing craft]] used by the [[United States Navy]] in [[World War II]] and for about 25 y
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  • Navy/Related Articles
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  • Prepositioning ship/Related Articles
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  • Littoral (military)/Related Articles
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  • Attack cargo ship/Related Articles
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  • Boat/Related Articles
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  • Landing craft
    '''Landing craft''' include a wide range of boats employed in amphibious warfare, specifical used for resupply operations. While most landing craft are carried to the landing area aboard a larger ship, there are some landin
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  • Enforcer-class
    deploying [[landing craft]]. | '''landing craft''' ||
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  • Tactical mobility/Related Articles
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  • Onslow Beach/Gallery
    ...g craft, mechanized|mechanized landing craft]] (LCM), right, and a utility landing craft come ashore during Exercise Solid Shield '83.</div></div> ...CM 8 (Landing Craft Mechanized) Mod-1 mechanized landing craft and utility landing craft approach Onslow Beach during Exercise Solid Shield '85.</div></div>
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  • Landing craft, vehicle, personnel
    {{main|landing craft}} [[Image:ONI226.jpg|thumb|280px|Landing craft, vehicle, personnel. Click the image to see a larger view or to download an
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  • Operation Sea Lion
    ...argets. The Germans did not use the Allied concept of lowering specialized landing craft from attack transport ships.
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  • Landing Craft Utility/Related Articles
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  • Noncommissioned officer/Related Articles
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  • Naval infantry/Related Articles
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  • Operation Sea Lion/Related Articles
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  • Normandy/Related Articles
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  • USS Electra (AKA-4)/Related Articles
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  • USS Betelgeuse (AKA-11)/Related Articles
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  • Chu Lai/Related Articles
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  • M1 Abrams tank/Related Articles
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  • Ship/Related Articles
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  • D-Day
    *Landing craft for the first wave will marshal at H-2 hours
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  • Combat loading
    ...opter]]s and tilt-rotor aircraft, air-cushion vehicles, and conventional [[landing craft]]. They have the capability to keep the ships "over the horizon" from a com In contrast, [[prepositioning ship]]s do have some helicopters and landing craft, it is assumed that they will be carrying sustainment supplies, which can b
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  • Wasp-class
    ...well deck, there can be three [[Landing Craft Air Cushion]] (LCAC), two [[Landing Craft Utility]] (LCU) or 39 [[amphibious assault vehicle]]s (AAV). The cargo hol
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  • Howitzer/Related Articles
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  • Battle of Tarawa
    ...mptive bombings and bombardment, more careful planning regarding tides and landing craft schedules, and better overall coordination.
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  • Joint High Speed Vessel
    It is not a [[landing craft]] and cannot beach itself, although it can operate helicopters to transfer
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  • Fast attack craft
    German fast gunboats were a serious threat to transports and landing craft. By the end of the Second World War, however, surface-launched anti-ship to
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  • Geospatial intelligence
    ...wade in, under intense fire. They could not carry heavy equipment that the landing craft would have brought to the shore.
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  • HDMS Knud Rasmussen (P570)
    | '''boats''' || 1 landing craft, 1 rigid hulled inflatable, in heated hangars
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  • Louisiana (U.S. state)/Related Articles
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  • Unguided rocket/Related Articles
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  • USS Trego (AKA-78)
    ...r [[Trego County, Kansas]]. She was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser ...unloaded; participated in training exercises for a week; discharged her [[landing craft]]; and on [[31 March]] got underway for [[San Francisco, California]] to re
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  • USS Trousdale (AKA-79)
    ...usdale County, Tennessee]]. She was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[USMC|Marines]] on ...[[27 April]], made port at [[Saipan]], where she transferred all of her [[landing craft]], save two, to other ships.
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  • USS Arcturus (AKA-1)
    ...n, Puerto Rico]]. In October 1942, ''Arcturus'' received orders to load [[landing craft]] and join the Western Naval Task Force (Task Force (TF) 34) in the [[Opera ...transport area, but neither ''Arcturus'' nor any other ship suffered hits. Landing craft casualties were great, however, because of the heavy surf, lack of recogniz
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  • USS Electra (AKA-4)
    ...invasion landings]] off [[Safi]] [[8 November]]. Although several of her [[landing craft|landing boats]] were lost under intensive fire from the beach, she unloaded
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  • USS Caswell (AKA-72)
    ...a]]. Like all AKAs, ''Caswell'' was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[United States Mar
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  • USS Southampton (AKA-66)
    ...ty, Virginia]]. ''Southampton'' was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser ...r assigned transport area off [[Iwo Jima]] on [[19 February]]. She lowered landing craft and dispatched them to other ships of the division to ferry the assault tro
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  • USS Capricornus (AKA-57)
    ...San Antonio, Northern Samar|San Antonio]] on [[26 January]], and servicing landing craft. She sailed out of Leyte Gulf [[27 March]], bound for the beaches of [[Okin
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  • USS Devosa (AKA-27)
    ...got underway for [[Tulagi]], [[Florida Islands]], where she discharged 36 landing craft for the boat pool and took part in amphibious training, preparing for [[Bat
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  • Naval infantry
    ...maintained by the Hellenic Army. The unit is based at Volos in Thessaly; landing craft and other nautical gear are furnished by the Hellenic Navy. ...ecial operations unit and several support units (logistical, fire support, landing craft, etc.).
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  • Captain Crotty (fireboat)
    ...e-engine General Motors Diesel which evolved from an engine design used on landing craft during World War II. -->
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  • Chu Lai
    ...there from 1967 to 1971. While it was not a deepwater port, it accepted [[landing craft]] and small vessels that took cargo from ships at the seaports [[Da Nang]]
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  • USS Thuban (AKA-19)
    In the days that followed, she conducted landing craft exercises; and, on the 22d, she arrived at [[Oakland, CA|Oakland]] to load ...ay and on the 8th arrived at [[Efate]], where, for two days, she conducted landing craft exercises in Meli Bay. On the 13th, she departed the [[New Hebrides]] to ta
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  • Marine Special Operations Command
    ...rst large-scale landing exercise in early 1940, realized that insufficient landing craft existed for landing a significant number of marines. As a workaround, he de
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  • USS Torrance (AKA-76)
    ...rance County, New Mexico]]. She was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser ...es to attempt to thwart the American onslaught, but to no avail. Fragile [[landing craft]] carried their loads to the beaches, braving heavy seas and stiff breezes
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  • USS Tyrrell (AKA-80)
    ...l County, North Carolina]]. She was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser ...e defenses— ''Tyrrell'' began lowering her boats. By 0644, the last of her landing craft was in the water and headed for the beach.
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  • USS Birgit (AKA-24)
    ...anchored at 1025. An hour later, she started discharging cargo, using her landing craft. Still, lack of lighterage kept the unloading moving slowly for the balance
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  • USS Duplin (AKA-87)
    ...na]]. Like all AKAs, ''Duplin'' was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[United States Mar
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  • USS Titania (AKA-13)
    ...U-130'']] unsuccessfully attacked them. A few days later, after delivering landing craft at Fedhala, ''Titania'' steamed home. ...port area six miles off [[Asan Point]]. Minutes later, she hoisted out her landing craft; and, at 08:30, the first wave of the 3d Marine Division landed on the nort
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  • USS Prentiss (AKA-102)
    ...]]. Like all AKAs, ''Prentiss'' was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser
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  • Attack cargo ship
    ...other cargo ships was their ability to carry and handle large numbers of [[landing craft]]. They were also faster, had more armament, and had larger hatches and boo ...for a special kind of cargo ship—one that could carry both cargo and the [[Landing craft, mechanized|LCM]] and [[LCVP]] boats with which to deliver it to the beach,
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  • USS Lenoir (AKA-74)
    ...ir]]. Like all AKAs, ''Lenoir'' was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser
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  • USS Rankin (AKA-103)
    .... Like all AKAs, ''Rankin'' was designed to transport military cargo and [[landing craft]], and use the latter to land weapons, supplies, [[soldiers]] and [[United ...cisco, California]], arriving on 20 July. After taking on her allowance of landing craft, she put in at [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]] for repairs. Hostilities end
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  • USS New Hanover (AKA-73)
    ...Like all AKAs, ''New Hanover'' was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[United States Mar
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  • Littoral warfare
    ...eristics of the approach to the beach, and the beach itself, are critical. Landing craft, for example, need to know about underwater obstacles (e.g., the "D-Day" la
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  • USS Waukesha (AKA-84)
    ...ukesha County, Wisconsin]]. She was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser
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  • USS Sheliak (AKA-62)
    ...l on board to San Francisco. On [[1 October]], the cargo ship delivered 18 landing craft to [[Monterey, California]]; and, on [[15 October]], she sailed from San Fr
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  • USS Starr (AKA-67)
    ...suicide boat had exploded as it contacted one of a cluster of ''Starr'''s landing craft that were moored alongside. The explosion was sufficiently removed from the
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  • USS Winston (AKA-94)
    ...8th, she moved to [[U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay|Subic Bay]] where she loaded landing craft to replace those she had left with the occupation forces in Japan. The foll
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  • USS Ottawa (AKA-101)
    Like all AKAs, ''Ottawa'' was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser
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  • Multiple rocket launcher
    The most common use was to put MRLs on landing craft, for final close-in saturating fire in amphibious warfare
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  • USS Alamance (AKA-75)
    ...]]. Like all AKAs, ''Alamance'' was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and troops on enemy sho
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  • USS Stokes (AKA-68)
    ...y, North Carolina]]. ''Stokes'' was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser
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  • USS Valencia (AKA-81)
    ...encia County, New Mexico]]. She was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser Arriving at [[Saipan]] on [[1 May]], ''Valencia'' transferred most of her landing craft ([[LCVP]]'s, [[LCPL]]'s, and [[LCM]]'s) to the boat pool and got underway f
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  • USS Warrick (AKA-89)
    ...Lingayen. ''Warrick'' continued her unloading of cargo over the next day. Landing craft, [[LCVP]]'s and [[LCM]]'s, from [[USS Warren (APA-53)]] assisted in the unl ...'s so that the beaches would not become fouled with the wrecks of numerous landing craft, thus impeding the flow of supplies necessary to keep the marines advancing
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  • USS Diphda (AKA-59)
    ...yen Gulf]]. Returning to [[Manus Island|Manus]] [[24 January]], she loaded landing craft to replace those transferred at [[Lingayen Gulf]], then loaded cargo at [[W
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  • USS Betelgeuse (AKA-11)
    ...unloading, and poor beach conditions, the attack cargo ship lost several [[landing craft]]. One of her sailors was killed by wild fire from a landing craft during an air raid. Moreover, her old engine problems returned.
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  • USS Towner (AKA-77)
    ...ner County, North Dakota]]. She was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser
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  • USS Merrick (AKA-97)
    ...15 May 1945 for training at [[Pearl Harbor]] and duty transporting cargo, landing craft, and troops among the [[Marshall Islands|Marshalls]] and [[New Hebrides]] u
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  • USS Wasatch (AGC-9)
    ...beachhead at 0920 that morning and, some 40&nbsp;minutes later, the first landing craft were churning towards the beach. Throughout the day, ''Wasatch'' stood offs
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  • USS Yancey (AKA-93)
    ...ornia]], California, the attack cargo ship received her boat group of 26 [[landing craft]] and conducted an intensive shakedown out of [[San Pedro, Calif.]] She und ...avy surf. For the first four days of the operation, ''Yancey's'' boats and landing craft were in almost constant use—carrying troops and cargo and evacuating woun
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  • USS Bellatrix (AKA-3)
    ...with other landing craft toward [[Tanapag]] harbor. ''Bellatrix'' and her landing craft then shifted to the transport area off "Yellow Beach." Despite continuous a
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  • USS Shoshone (AKA-65)
    ...ing (U.S. state)|Wyoming]]. She was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser
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  • USS Troilus (AKA-46)
    ...nuary]] and then returned to San Francisco to take on a capacity load of [[landing craft]] for transportation to the [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]].
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  • USS Suffolk (AKA-69)
    ...ew York|New York]]. ''Suffolk'' was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser
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  • USS Seminole (AKA-104)
    ...e Indian Territory. ''Seminole'' was designed to carry military cargo and landing craft, and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and Marines on enemy shor ...September 12-17, ''Seminole'' loaded general cargo, ammunition, vehicles, landing craft, and gasoline for the 40th Infantry Division. Then, on September 18, she g
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  • USS Vinton (AKA-83)
    ...er [[Vinton County, Ohio]]. She was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[United States Mar
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  • USS Washburn (AKA-108)
    ...shburn County, Wisconsin]]. She was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser
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  • USS Almaack (AKA-10)
    ...ht the wind continued to blow, and ''Almaack's'' [[coxswain]]s put their [[landing craft]] on the beach. ...verall Measure 11, Sea Blue, and received new masts to handle the brood of landing craft assigned the ship. She also received new men; among them Ens. Wilmer H. Cre
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  • USS Tolland (AKA-64)
    ...land County, Connecticut]]. She was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser
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  • USS Union (AKA-106)
    ...nd trip to Subic Bay with [[USS Leo (AKA-60)|''Leo'' (AKA-60)]] to pick up landing craft replacements for the entire squadron. The ship departed Manila Bay on 30 Oc ...t day of 1967 found ''Union'' in the last phase of her WestPac tour. After landing craft training operations in the Okinawa area, ''Union'' departed Okinawa en rout
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  • USS Wheatland (AKA-85)
    ...heatland County, Montana]]. She was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[United States Mar
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  • USS Tate (AKA-70)
    ...County, Mississippi]]. ''Tate'' was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser
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  • Centers of gravity (military)
    ...and only after the (preferably) undefended landing spots were secure would landing craft bring in heavy forces.
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  • USS Algol (AKA-54)
    ...ps, Algol moved into the inner transport area to serve as a tender for the landing craft.
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  • USS Wyandot (AKA-92)
    ...and ''Wyandot'' listed slightly to starboard. Putting the remainder of her landing craft and boats in the water, the vessel painfully made her way to an advanced re
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  • USS Venango (AKA-82)
    ...ngo County, Pennsylvania]]. She was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser
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  • USS Virgo (AKA-20)
    ...nd]]. She arrived in [[Wellington]] on [[6 October]] and began a series of landing craft exercises. The ship remained at Wellington until [[1 November]] at which ti
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  • March Definitions
    * [[Landing craft/Definition]]
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  • USS Woodford (AKA-86)
    ...ounty, Kentucky|Kentucky]]. She was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and [[Marine (armed ser
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  • USS Uvalde (AKA-88)
    ...lf]] on the morning of [[11 January]] and, at 0925, sent her first wave of landing craft onto the beaches. During her ensuing stay at Lingayen Gulf, ''Uvalde's'' sa
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  • Home Guard
    ...ed in [[amphibious warfare]], and destroyers could penetrate the escort of landing craft and sink the improvised vessels simply with high-speed waves.
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  • March RA
    * [[Landing craft/Related Articles]]
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  • Neil Armstrong
    ...sful, as they gave commanders valuable experience in the behavior of lunar landing craft.<ref>Hansen 2005, p.&nbsp;334.</ref><!--All good-->
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  • March Metadata
    * [[Template:Landing craft/Metadata]]
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  • USS Whiteside (AKA-90)
    ...which time she got underway for [[Manila]] in the [[Philippines]] to load landing craft for duty in conjunction with the transfer of [[Nationalist Chinese]] troops
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  • World War Two in the Pacific
    ...mptive bombings and bombardment, more careful planning regarding tides and landing craft schedules, and better overall coordination.
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  • Battle of Leyte Gulf
    ...e loaded transports, but, by some error, the attack was made against small landing craft."
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  • Geophysical MASINT
    ...cushion vehicles bringing ashore larger equipment, eventually, traditional landing craft, portable causeways, or other equipment will be needed to bring heavy equip
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
    ...shift most of the Navy's resources to the Pacific, stripping Europe of the landing craft Eisenhower needed.
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