The supplies were unloaded from the landing craft by roller conveyors and "fire brigade methods" directly onto the waiting trucks and trailers.
The assaulting forces, having been transferred to landing craft, met at the line of departure 5,000 yards from shore.
Gray, disembarked from the transport and headed for the island in landing craft.
These platoons landed with the assault waves, collected the casualties on the beach, gave them the necessary treatment, and then evacuated them to designated ships by landing craft.
An antitank platoon with the 9th Marines did not fire because the landing craft in the mist looked so much like their own, even to the big white numbers on the prow.
Help for the assault troops came from LCI (landing craft, infantry) gunboats which knocked out at least one deadly Japanese 40mm twin-mount gun and a couple of enemy bunkers.
Ahead of them, 30 LCIs (landing craft, infantry) and a company of the 2d Armored Amphibian Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Reed M.
Illustration: Amphibian tractors and Higgins boats (LCVPs, landing craft, vehicle and personnel) leave wakes as they land Marines on White Beach 2 and return to assault shipping off shore to load more troops and supplies.
LCMs [Landing Craft, Medium] carried DUKW amphibian trucks, driven by soldiers and fitted with rocket launchers.
These troops would transfer from the landing craft to LVTs at the reef’s edge, if all went as planned.
Much of the infantry had come all the way from Australia aboard the larger landing craft.
As far as they could see along the beach, landing craft of every sort were pushing up to shore.
Illustration: Landing Craft Pushed up to Shore] A small detachment of men set up camp east of the road, while the western side was cleared for the hospital site.
Zero fighters flew over the beach area at tree-top level, strafing and bombing the beach and landing craft.
The battalion was transported largely by various types of landing craft, which made the displacement a slow, laborious process.
Landing Craft Infantry (LCIs) are run up on the beach in the background, as working parties unload them by hand.
The new TD-18 bulldozers were found to be an inch too wide for the medium landing craft (LCMs).
Meanwhile, landing craft, supplies, and vehicles pile up in the surf behind Marines.
Hill and Blandy had a critical need for the amphibious ships, landing craft, and shore bombardment vessels currently being used by General Douglas MacArthur in his reconquest of Luzon in the Philippines.
Landing craft of this type were capable of carrying five Sherman tanks.
Then, abruptly, they sank--landing craft, platform and all.
When they finally reached comparatively solid ground, Kielland was mud up to the hips, and mad enough to blast off without benefit of landing craft.
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