Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Landing Ship-Tank) has bow doors and beaching ramp, elevators to lift tanks or other cargo from the hold to the main level. Length: 328 feet (World War II models) or 382 feet (postwar models...
...Landing Ship - Utility), the former LCT, carries five 30-ton tanks or 150 tons of combat cargo discharged over a bow ramp. Generally transported to landing area aboard an LST, LSD or cargo ship. Length: 120 feet...
LCVP (Landing Craft-Vehicle, Personnel), carried on LSTs or assault transports, has bow ramps, carries 36 men, a one-ton truck or four tons of cargo. Length: 36 feet...
...bow of each LSVP were two long ladders, one of aluminum and the other of wood. Each had long hooks at the top. These were the assault ladders to be thrown against the sea wall. As we ran for it, the ladders were up in the bows, making the LSVPs look like huge water bugs with antennae outstretched...
...time in announcing his own, three-point program for dealing with the Huks. It was a lulu. The program : 1) organize a unit of Negrito tribesmen to clean the Huks out of three major provinces ("The Negritos," said Magsaysay, "know the mountains better and are more deadly with the bow & arrow than the Huks are with a gun"); 2) import some bloodhounds from the U.S. to help track the Huks through the jungles; 3) dump all captured and surrendered Huks on an uninhabited island and there teach them the democratic way of life...