Sentence examples for landing vehicles from inspiring English sources

The sand bar's coral reef trapped the landing vehicles as mortar fire riddled their position.

He ended up getting a Bronze Star because in the battle, he was able to repair the amphibious landing vehicles that the troops came in on.

But it did not take long for journalists and analysts to conclude that the picture was clumsily doctored to add more amphibious landing vehicles and make the drill look far more imposing than it really was.

15 LVTPs (Landing Vehicles Tracked, Personnel make an "administrative landing" on the beach in 10 minutes. Gives the history of U.S. presence in Cuba since 1898. Navy Capt. John H. Fetterman, Jr., commands the base.

One of the questions that the Allied command had to resolve before undertaking the liberation of Europe from the Nazis, seventy-one yeago ago this summer, was whether the sandy beaches of Normandy would support the weight of amphibious landing vehicles and tanks.

Current and former Marine officials said they would now extend the lives of their older landing vehicles, which must be released much closer to the beach, and see if they could come up with a less expensive version of the new vehicle.

In 1985 the LVTP-7 was redesignated the AAVP7A1, as part of its continued evolution from a landing vehicle into an assault vehicle.

Two principal types appeared during World War II: the LVT ("landing vehicle, tracked"), a tractor developed for the U.S. Marine Corps, and the "duck" (DUKW), an army-sponsored vehicle.

The astronauts of Apollo X, in their dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing, had christened their orbiter and landing vehicle Charlie Brown and Snoopy.

The rain was beating down steadily now, but only when the hatch of the landing vehicle was closed, eleven minutes later, did the last, diehard spectators turn away.

Bellcomm's tasks included determining that the lunar surface was almost certainly not composed of dust so powdery that a landing vehicle would just keep sinking.