How To Use Landing craft In A Sentence
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Jitters had been wounded early, and washed back to the landing craft.
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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.
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These constraints put out of the question any prospect of training fully fledged navigators for the thousands of landing craft crews.
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The Type utility landing craft has a conventional layout with a flat bow door.
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The shore batteries took a heavy toll of the landing craft, particularly at Westkapelle, and supporting armour bogged down in the soft clay.
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The beach defences were softened up before the landing craft went in.
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The docking bay, with doors at the stern of the ship, can be flooded for amphibious operations using small landing craft.
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The DUKW took them to a landing craft and they began vessel hopping until they finally reached the Tuscaloosa.
Wild Bill Donovan
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Many of these and the other heavier transports carried smaller landing craft for the actual beach assault - more than fifteen hundred of them.
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Landing craft are primarily designed for offensive operations.
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In the deep channels were the Infantry Landing Ships, cross-Channel steamers and small liners with landing craft hanging on their davits; in the shallows were the LCTs loaded with vehicles and tanks and men, moving off towards the eastern entrance of Spithead in great flotillas, shepherded by their MLs.
The Breaking Wave
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The landing craft was equipped with instruments for communication and analysis including radio equipment, scientific apparatus, and a television system.
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Jack had wanted to team up with bosom pal Lew Williams, but that was not possible because they had been allocated different Landing Craft Tanks on D-Day.
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The three davits for the deployment of landing craft and the patrol boat are relocated to a sponson installed on the port side of the ship instead of on the flight deck.
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The assault force consists of some 4,000 ships and landing craft carrying 176,000 troops and their material, escorted by 600 warships, with 2,500 bombers and 7,000 fighters and fighter-bombers overhead.
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As day dawned, the landing craft was just off the French coastline and the order to go in was given.
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The Type utility landing craft has a conventional layout with a flat bow door.
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Part of the landing craft remained on the Moon to be used as a launch platform; the rest was used to carry the astronauts back to lunar orbit.
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This landing craft is unique in the world.
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Azimuthal thrusters and a dynamic positioning system are fitted for holding the position and heading steady during operations involving embarking or disembarking landing craft.
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Orson Welles's Othello "waded through the great speeches, pausing before the stronger words like a landing craft breasting a swell.
A challenging role for a complex thespian
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Davits on either side of the superstructure secure two Landing Craft Vehicular and Personnel craft.
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His shooting style was thought of as conservative, yet he boldly installed 152 mini cameras on the D-Day landing craft.
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The low humming from the engine of our landing craft was just audible over the chatter of the diggers she carried.
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In 1899, a French staff officer designed an armoured landing craft fitted with a detachable landing ramp, of about 80 tons displacement.
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Meantime speedy salvage and relaunching of sunk or damaged landing craft would be imperative.
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More than 6,000 ships, warships, merchantmen, landing craft and barges, sailed across the channel in marked lanes cleared by minesweepers.
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I had to do this while wearing battledress still soaked with seawater from when I waded ashore from the landing craft.
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In April 1915, a converted collier named The River Clyde was used as an improvised landing craft to put ashore Allied troops near Cape Helles, at the tip of the Gallipoli peninsula.
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Pug got along well with Burne - Wilke , who had fully grasped the landing craft problem.
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From the transport ships came the landing craft with various initials that brought the troops ashore.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The ensuing fire-fight left the gun-boat beyond use and it left the 20 landing craft carrying the commandos unprotected.
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Sixth, the use of air cushion landing craft in the course of an amphibious assault operation seriously complicates the effective engagement of marine striking echelons as they approach the coast.
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Sea King helicopters thundered overhead as the troops poured from amphibious landing craft and secured the beachhead on Aberdeen peninsula, three kilometers west of the capital.
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I had my own landing craft, slung on-board the troop ship Glenear, and when we arrived I ferried men to and from the shore with German shells exploding all around me.
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Group 4 was a floating reserve lying offshore in their landing craft until required to reinforce one of the other Groups.
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Group 4 was a floating reserve lying offshore in their landing craft until required to reinforce one of the other Groups.
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The drills involved a total of 14 patrol boats, landing craft and submarine hunting boats, along with two military aircraft, according to the newspaper, which said the aim was to refine antisubmarine, resupply and island defense capabilities.
Beijing Stages South China Sea Military Drills
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On Saturday morning, dozens of amphibious vehicles and air-cushion landing craft ferried men and tanks on to military-designated Red Beach.
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Flooding of the docking area is achieved by ballasting the stern of the ship, allowing the landing craft to float.
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At the yacht club, a squadron of American bulldozers had arrived without warning and built an artificial harbour almost overnight for repairing landing craft.
Spitfire Women of World War II
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Before its end, he would take his men through a minefield, capture a trench full of German soldiers without firing a shot - and enjoy a tot of rum from a jug he clung to as dearly as life itself when he was submerged below the landing craft.
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On Saturday morning, dozens of amphibious vehicles and air-cushion landing craft ferried men and tanks on to military-designated Red Beach.
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These constraints put out of the question any prospect of training fully fledged navigators for the thousands of landing craft crews.
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The docking facilities must be big enough to cope with the 26 foot draught of Liberty ships and at the same time provide sheltered water for smaller vessels, such as landing craft, to operate.
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Six-foot waves crash over the sides of the landing craft and several are swamped.
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Suitable types might include sailing barges, historic tugboats, a wartime landing craft, steam motor yachts, or even a retired lightship, submarine, or hydrofoil.
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Unfortunately, there is no official list of those Australians who served on the ships and landing craft during the D-Day landings.
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The British had recommended that steel be diverted from the construction of battleships and heavy cruisers to convoy escorts and landing craft.
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Low tide left vast mudflats across which landing ships and landing craft could not beach and amphibian tractors could not crawl.
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A pair of Uyzes, old Russian jeep versions of the Dormobile, were parked outside, armoured and jacked up on high wheels as if once designed for use as landing craft.
Wildwood
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Thousands of landing craft were built to land armies in Normandy and on Pacific islands.
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The beach defences were softened up before the landing craft was in.
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The Type utility landing craft has a conventional layout with a flat bow door.
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I suggest that the Russians were using some sort of amphibious vehicle or maybe a landing craft.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Following is the heavy weapons and equipment to carry large landing craft.
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The crew made a total of three moonwalks over as many days, ventured 27 km from their landing craft, and spent a total of over 20 hours on the Moon.
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The Tortuga, docked in Sasebo, Japan, gathered all of its amphibious landing craft, which could be used to move people and supplies, Cole said.
U.S. sends aid to Japan, reacts to deadly quake, tsunami
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From the transport ships came the landing craft with various initials that brought the troops ashore.
The Times Literary Supplement
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At the start of the war it comprised just 8 small coastal vessels; by its end it had 10 sloops, 3 frigates, 4 corvettes, 17 minesweepers, and a number of smaller warships, and it also had a landing craft wing of 41 boats.
