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PugJesus@kbin.socialM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

US troops disembarking from a LARC-LX amphibious vehicle, 1950s?

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US troops disembarking from a LARC-LX amphibious vehicle, 1950s?

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PugJesus@kbin.socialM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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    Imagine this big beast rolling up on your position and just vomiting troops out. Oversized land vehicles are a gift and I will hear nothing to the contrary.

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      Well shitty little boats did NOT do the job as well as this thing might have on D Day. Can’t have a funnel of death if there is no funnel!

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    The structural rigidity of that thing looks… a bit floppy.

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      Well if it’s a landing craft then it’s mostly hollow . I wonder how many combat landings they see these things taking part in before they’re scrap.

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    Thing looks like it’s skinned with waxed cardboard.

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    Service guarantees citizenship.

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    What’s wild is they ultimately deemed this capability very useful and now they use LCAC (hovercraft).

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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LARC-LX

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    Thank you for posting the original and not a colorized or even worse AI colorized version. Having color in an old pic can be nice, but it’s also rewriting history and replacing something original with something fake.

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    The war museum in Overloon, The Netherlands has one of these on display. It’s massive. Bigger than you can imagine.

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