landing-craft

The U.S. Army was simply not ready, the shipping and landing-craft were not available and the Allies lacked air supremacy.

Eisenhower's Pit Bull Antony Beevor 2010

QUANTICO, Va The Marine Corps unveiled its new $13 billion landing-craft program on Tuesday, a day after Defense Secretary Robert Gates questioned the Pentagon's need for it.

Marines forge ahead with new landing craft 2010

In popular culture, too: two of the most experienced combat vets in the movies not named Jimmy Stewart (who got the marquee job bombing Nazis), Lee Marvin and Eddie Albert, were Pacific men, a marine and a Coast Guard landing-craft pilot decorated for going back multiple times to pull wounded off the murderous fiasco of the Tarawa beachhead, both made iconic war movies -- about the European theater.

Where we won the War we started by almost losing it 2010

Whenever I hear the apologists expressing guilt and shame for A-bombing and ending the war Japan had started they ignore the cause-effect relation between Pearl Harbor and Nagasaki, I have noted that neither the effete critics nor the puff-adder politicians are among us in the assault landing-craft or the stinking rice paddies of their suggested alternative, "conventional" warfare.

The Ahmadinejad Gambit 2007

We developed the knack of blasting a landing-craft channel through a reef.

Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

They argued that it was out of all proportion to the Navy's strength, the Channel with its weather, fog, currents and tides might present the greatest hazards for the invasion fleet, expensive and time-consuming conversion of existing barges into landing-craft would be needed, neither mine-fields nor air support provided safe protection, especially since Luftwaffe sorties depended upon good weather.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

The monastery gate, rather than a jail door slamming to shut me in, is a landing-craft ramp lowering to let me out, and I have no choice now but to wade ashore on an alien beach where sooner or later I must confront an inhospitable populace.

Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971

The Nemesis and the Space-Scourge, from landing-craft and from the ships themselves, landed Eglonsby troops on Stolgonopolis.

Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

Trask took a landing-craft and went out to meet the ship.

Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

The Gilgamesh freighter, like most of her ilk, had huge cargo-ports all around; these began opening and disgorging a swarm of everything from landing-craft and hundred-foot airboats to one man aircavalry single-mounts.

Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963