Word: lsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Possessions of Man. Centuries ago, guided by the light of the stars and "the feel of the waves on the boat," the forefathers of the Bikinians had pushed their graceful canoes up the length of the Marshall Islands. Now graceless LSTs bore them to Rongerik, an atoll 140 miles to southeast...
...black, oily beach a thousand yards off, a strip of LSTs and LCIs lay high & dry. Jap artillery and heavy mortar was splashing around them. Farther inland our naval barrage was laying in some white puffs amid the jungle green. We had been at general quarters since dawn and the machine-gun bursts from the shore side told of men fighting and dying there. But to the machinist's mate sitting alone in the quiet of his anguish, the war and all its noises had faded away. The war had lost its meaning. Everything he had been trained...
...statuary almost as big as the standing army. Now, with the U.S. entering its fourth war year and some World War II memorials already abuilding, something of a revolt against traditional war memorials has sprung up. The U.S. people have apparently decided that they want no concrete jeeps, or LSTs in marble. By last week city after city had begun to plan more useful ways of honoring the nation's fighting...
...picture opens in a magnificent wallow of amphtracks as they leave their LSTs and head for shore under fire. One is hit and helpless. A plane, too, goes down. These are the finest shots of this stage of battle which have yet been released. Those which follow, ashore, are hardly less fine, made very close to the ground as marines, heroic in size and movement on the screen, rush across the open beach against everything the Japanese can throw at them. A hit man stops short, falls wounded before the lens. The cutting-away from such bits is swift, perhaps...
Faster than Ports. Last week, on D-plus-100, more than 100 freighters waited off the Normandy shore to be unloaded. With the aid of ducks the ships disgorged and turned away more quickly than if they had been in a modern port. LSTs, 50 and 60 at a time, beached themselves at high tide, were left stranded as the 19-ft. tide receded, opened their mouths and were unloaded before another tide floated them...