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landing craft
noun
A type of flat-bottomed boat used to transport infantry and vehicles onto a shore during an assault from the sea
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Yancey was equipped to carry eight LCMs ("Landing Craft Mechanized"), which were designed to land vehicles in amphibious landings; one LCP(L) ("Landing Craft, Personnel (Large)"); and fifteen LCVPs ("Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel"), or Higgins boats.
L.C.V.P. (Landing Craft, Vehicles and Personnel LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized).
LCt (Landing Craft, Tanks) LCIL (Landing Craft Infantry Large).
LCRL (Landing Craft Rubber Small).
Speaks of British landing craft.
LCRL (Landing Craft, Rub ber Large).
Our landing craft had four sleeping compartments belowdecks.
Winston Churchill is the father of big landing craft.
Because asteroids have such slight gravity fields, their investigation wouldn't require expensive landing craft.
"We came ashore in the same landing craft that had been left behind by the Americans".
But they should have a landing craft filled with a lot of cars — it's quite realistic.
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