Word: lsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberties are still being finished at East Coast yards. But no more keels will be laid, East or West. Already Richmond No. 2, and most of the other yards, are building the faster Victory ship (15 knots) and a shoal of Navy craft, C-4 troop transports, LSTs, frigates. But the feverish shipbuilding in which Richmond No. 2 built a Liberty in seven days is ended...
...week's end LSTs were crawling steadily back to English ports. Negro stretcher bearers lifted
...most spectacular feature is her maneuverability. She can spin so fast on her heel that men aboard her literally get dizzy. This agility should make her invaluable for carrying initial assault waves through treacherous coral reefs onto Pacific island beaches. More cumbersome 5,500-ton LSTs can still be used for carting in second and third waves of tanks, trucks, guns...
...main objectives had been captured. Momote airfield, swiftly taken, had been rehabilitated and U.S. fighter craft were operating from its strip in support of forward units. Jap shore batteries on nearby Manus Island had been silenced by Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid's navy and supply-burdened LSTs were unloading without enemy interference. One of the first Navy shipments: fresh beef to supplement the Army's K-rations...
...Japs scurried off up the dense hillside and were hotly pursued. Meanwhile, LCIs (Landing Craft, Infantry) had filed in and were unloading. At sea bigger and clumsier LSTs (Landing Ships, Tanks, affectionately interpreted as "Large, Slow Targets"), their bellies heavy with mechanical equipment and troops, lumbered toward the harbor mouth. They suffered the indignity of being attacked by Jap mortar fire from the hillside, and a destroyer had to go to their rescue with an offshore barrage. At this point task forces had a look over the horizon to see how we were getting on. We were doing all right...