How To Use landing craft In A Sentence
- Jitters had been wounded early, and washed back to the landing craft.
- It has concentrated upon acquiring small torpedo and missile attack boats, but has also acquired modest numbers of landing craft for amphibious operations and a small submarine force.
- These constraints put out of the question any prospect of training fully fledged navigators for the thousands of landing craft crews.
- The Type utility landing craft has a conventional layout with a flat bow door.
- The shore batteries took a heavy toll of the landing craft, particularly at Westkapelle, and supporting armour bogged down in the soft clay.
- The beach defences were softened up before the landing craft went in.
- The docking bay, with doors at the stern of the ship, can be flooded for amphibious operations using small landing craft.
- The DUKW took them to a landing craft and they began vessel hopping until they finally reached the Tuscaloosa. Wild Bill Donovan
- Many of these and the other heavier transports carried smaller landing craft for the actual beach assault - more than fifteen hundred of them.
- Landing craft are primarily designed for offensive operations.
