Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Single-Seat Versatility. In single-seater fighter aircraft, the U.S. emerged as the owner of the most dazzling display of any combatant. Working on the aeronautical axiom that "there is no substitute for soup," U.S. designers got their super-powered (2,000 h.p. and above) craft off the production lines and into action. The result was something more than they expected when design was begun, generally three or four years...
Beyond higher speeds, longer ranges and better altitude performance, the new fighters also demonstrated an unexpected versatility as light bombers. Meanwhile, designers of models with less power slicked and dressed their products, vastly improved performance, found that their craft, too, had more versatility than they had ever believed possible...
...able to navigate by itself on the high seas, is 155 ft. long and can carry about 200 infantrymen in an attack. Its crew and command are similar to those of the LST; officers and men on both develop great esprit de corps, become inordinately fond of their strange craft, and look with pained incredulity on finical civilians who consider the ships something less than yare and yachtlike...
...Higgins landing boat turns up in the list under two designations: LCV (Landing Craft, Vehicle), when it ferries, a light tank, or LCP (for Personnel) when 50 men ride it ashore...
...early as 1936 the Navy experimented with tank lighters, and from these tests emerged the LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized)., a 50-footer which carries a crew of four and a medium tank. As an intermediate step between this small boat and the ocean-going LST, the Navy designed a 100-ft. LCT (Landing Craft, Tank), which can be carried to zones of operation on the deck of an LST or a cargo vessel...