Word: ramps
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...squadrons of U.S. airmen, rigid at attention while the 94° heat wilted their khaki and soaked their hats. He stood there for a long moment, looking about him, blinking under the sun of a land he had never seen before. Then slowly Charles de Gaulle moved down the ramp, looking even taller than his 6 ft. 4 in., even thinner than his pictures. As his foot touched the ground, the 17-gun salute to a general roared into the hazy heat (four guns less than the salute for the head of a state). The faint est smile passed across...
...Navy's landing craft, the LSM may become even more famous than the LST. The LSM has a 34-ft. beam, is some 100 ft. shorter than the 328-ft. LST. As in her bigger sister, two doors in her broad nose open and a ramp drops down for her cargo to roll ashore...
...Landing Craft, Personnel), 36 ft. long, with or without ramp, for 30 to 36 assault troops...
...Landing Ship, Tank), a 328-ft., ocean-going ship with a tank ramp...
...test the political winds in Canada before the meeting of the Commonwealth's Prime Ministers in London scheduled soon, when Empire policies will finally be threshed out. The provocation for direct reply was great: some of the Prime Minister's supporters talked angrily of an "imperialist ramp" (i.e., "Swindle...