The Allied campaigns of the Second World War involved dozens if not hundreds of amphibious landings on hostile beaches. These operations could only be effected through the use of specialized landing craft designed to transport troops, vehicles and supplies onto the enemy coast. At the beginning of the war, the United States possessed very few landing craft. Many thousands would be built in the following three years, and storm ashore on beaches in the European and Pacific theaters of war.
4 окт 2024
