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...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...
...maybe not. What suspicious Reader Ingold saw was the end section of a pontoon used by LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank) to float the ramp when it cannot get up to a beach...
...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...
...Germans knew we were coming and waited for us. All they had to do was study the map and see that the obvious place for us to strike was south of Naples. The day before our landing our LSTs were bombed continuously. Probably the German air force had us under observation at all times. The enemy knew not only approximately where we were going to land, but when...
...were LCMs (Landing Craft, Motorized), which put ashore small tanks and bigger vehicles. Next came LCTs (Landing Craft, Tanks), smallest of the ships which reached Sicily's shores under their own power. LCIs (Landing Craft, Infantry) came next, carrying nearly 200 men apiece. And finally came huge LSTs (Landing Ships, Tanks), which can carry a tremendous cargo. They were hauled forward to the beach by "ducks"-two-and-a-half-ton amphibious trucks...