Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great U.S. building jobs in World War II was the high-speed construction of the swarming fleets of landing craft for the Allied amphibious attacks on Sicily, Italy, Attu, Kiska and Rendova...
...months before the amphibious operations began, the giant LST vessels (Landing Ship, Tank) were nothing more than an idea. It was four months later than that before British studies revealed the need for an extra big troop landing boat; to meet the need the big LCI-L (Landing Craft, Infantry-Large) was developed...
...ambulance took me to a landing craft and, with several other wounded, I soon found myself alongside a ship. A hook descended over the boat and the sailors fastened lines around my stretcher and that of another man. When we came abreast of the rail, careful hands seized our stretchers and voices said: "Good work, soldier...
...largest naval forces in the world is one of the newest: 333 combat vessels, 1,274 mine craft and patrol craft, 151 auxiliaries and 654 yard and district craft, 12,964 landing craft. The new fleet, of respectable strength in its own right, comprises the vessels of the U.S. Navy completed in the three years between July 1940 and July 1943. Added to the existing tonnage (and allowing for losses and transfers), the new ships give the U.S. "the mightiest surface fleet in world history...
...Following Pearl Harbor, "greatest urgency" was for the new battleships of the Iowa and North Carolina classes. The 45,000-ton New Jersey was completed in 26% less time than the 35,000-ton Washington. After Coral Sea and Midway, emphasis shifted to carriers, then to landing craft and destroyer escorts...