Landing craft
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landing-craft-189-4059320
title:
Landing craft
text:
Landing craft are small and medium seagoing watercraft, such as boats and barges, used to convey a landing force from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault. The term excludes landing ships, which are larger. Production of landing craft peaked during World War II, with a significant number of different designs produced in large quantities by the United Kingdom and United States. Because of the need to run up onto a suitable beach, World War II landing craft were flat-bottomed, and man
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Seagoing watercraft
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_craft
date created:
2004-03-20T18:24:12Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T07:56:12Z
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13
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