Landing Craft, Infantry and Fire Support
Described by one soldier as a metal box designed by a sadist to move soldiers across the water, the Landing Craft, Infantry was a large beaching craft intended to transport and deliver an infantry rifle company to a hostile shore, once the beachhead was secured. The LCI, or as it was more commonly known, Elsie Item, and its vehicle-delivery counterpart, the Landing Ship, Medium (LSM), were widely used by the allies during amphibious operations during World War II. They were mid-sized beaching craft filling the gap between the much larger LST and the many types of smaller bow-ramped, open cargo compartment landing craft. The LCI and LSM were t…
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Weitere Autoren: Bull, Peter (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-84603-435-0
- EAN: 9781846034350
- Produktnummer: 4443733
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 48 S.
- Masse: H24.8 cm x B18.4 cm x D0.5 cm
- Abbildungen: Farb. Abb.
- Reihenbandnummer: 157
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Gordon L. Rottman
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