Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night was undisturbed, except for an alarm touched off by two U.S. landing craft, homeward-bound from the Ormoc beachhead. The next morning, too, was so calm that U.S. Navymen began to smell trouble. At 3 p.m., they sighted it-enemy planes...
...method of extracting the Japs was a series of inshore patrols by a landing craft. As marines inland prodded every tussock, probed every cave, the LCI cruised close to the cliffs, while a language officer at a loudspeaker urged the Japs to come on down and give up. Among his persuasions: good food, clean beds, plenty of bathing, the chance of honorable surrender. Some of the Japs were persuaded. Many others, still convinced that there was no such thing as honorable surrender, were...
...troops in the South Pacific, the exploits of Fiji scouts on Bougainville are already legendary. The smiling, coal-black British colonials, tall, husky and soldierly, have deeply impressed G.I.s with their jungle craft and cool courage. One whom troops of the U.S. XIV Army Corps will long remember was Corporal Sefanaia Sukanaivalu...
Before dawn of the 7th, the 225-mile end run from Leyte Gulf through Surigao Strait and up into the Camotes Sea, had been completed. Almost a hundred craft under Rear Admiral Arthur Dewey Struble, a Normandy veteran, lay off shore. At 6:30 the destroyers opened up on the beaches with 5-inch guns; after 20 minutes, LCIs carrying rocket launchers belched their loads onto a 1,200-yd. beachhead. At 7:07 (because General Bruce likes sevens for his 77th), the first troops sloshed up the beaches, without a casualty. Most of the Japs had been sucked into...
...charge of two LCMs (landing craft, mechanized), Telker had set out on a routine job of ferrying caterpillar tractors from Leyte to nearby Samar. He was puzzled when Jap planes strafed his craft, dumfounded when, after putting ashore in a small cove to reconnoiter, he was welcomed by jubilant Filipinos uttering flowery phrases...