Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several correspondents in the landing craft was TIME Correspondent Jack Belden, who reported the landing and the battles which followed. (Because of transmission delays, no eyewitness accounts of the landing reached the U.S. until last week...
Gunboats with blue lights, standing in toward the shore as guides for the landing craft, began to hail the first comers: "Straight ahead. Go straight ahead. You'll see the light on your right. Land there. Look out for mines. Good luck...
...anything but tactical surprise; about the deviation of compasses when the soldiers with their metal rifles got aboard the assault boats. But by 7 o'clock on the eve of the invasion, the storm was so bad that the Admiral was having to consider ordering the landing craft to stay offshore...
There were ships as far as you could see on the cobalt blue water; the landing barges looked like squirming black fish streaming in & out from the shore. Destroyers were laying down smoke screens to help the landing craft approach safely. The screens mingled with clouds of smoke from the burning land, where shells had spread fires in the dust-dry countryside; everything that could burn was alight...
...Navy released overall figures on its building program. More than 6,000 vessels were launched in the first six months of this year. Landing craft (excluding rubber boats) made up over one-half the numerical total, which includes everything from lighters to battleships. Biggest part of the tonnage: fighting ships. In the half-year one new combatant craft was in the water for every three warships in the fleet on New Year...