landing craft
flat bottomed boat used to transfer troops from ship to shore | ||||
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Landing craft Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
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landing craft
(*) A craft employed in amphibious operations, specifically designed for carrying troops and their equipment and for beaching, unloading, and retracting. It is also used for resupply operations.
(*) A craft employed in amphibious operations, specifically designed for carrying troops and their equipment and for beaching, unloading, and retracting. It is also used for resupply operations.
Landing craft Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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landing craft
Noun
1. naval craft designed for putting ashore troops and equipment
(hypernym) craft
Noun
1. naval craft designed for putting ashore troops and equipment
(hypernym) craft
| hEnglish - advanced version |
landing craft
landing craft
n : naval craft designed for putting ashore troops and equipment
landing craft
n : naval craft designed for putting ashore troops and equipment
Landing craft Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Landing craft
Landing craft are boats and seagoing vehicles used to convey a landing force (infantry and vehicles) from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault. Most renowned are those used to storm the beaches of Normandy, the Mediterranean, and many Pacific islands during WWII.
In the days of sail, the ship's boats were used as landing craft, but the introduction of steamships led to ship's boats shrinking in size, which required the creation of specialist designs for landing purposes.
The high summer of the landing craft was the latter half of World War II, when a large number of different designs were produced in large quantities by the United Kingdom and United States.
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