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LCVP (Landing Craft-Vehicle, Personnel), carried on LSTs or assault transports, has bow ramps, carries 36 men, a one-ton truck or four tons of cargo. Length: 36 feet...
...around us lay the invasion fleet. It felt good to see the APAs and LSTs and other craft spread far across the sea. Ashore, our third battalion was already assaulting Wolmi Island (see above). Rumors flew about that the Wolmi assault was a bloody one. That made us all quite nervous. Then we heard that the assault was easy, and casualties light. That made us feel better about going after Inchon that afternoon...
...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...