Today, both the Australian and the U.S. landing craft proposals align. With the U.S. Marine Corps wanting up to 35 austere variants of the notional Landing Craft Medium, and the U.S. Navy ...
The 684-foot San Antonios can carry landing craft plus a few rotorcraft, and land 700 Marines. The 844-foot Americas can carry dozens of aircraft – including some fixed wing vertical-thrust jets ...
Nimitz, the commander in chief of the Pacific fleet. Other landing craft couldn't make it over the island's reef, and many Marines had to wade ashore through withering Japanese fire. Some Navy ...
Big, billowy air-cushioned landing craft shuttled the Marines from the assault ship USS Boxer offshore to Red Beach, one of the most important amphibious training areas in the Marine Corps.