Landing craft
Landing craft are small or medium sized boats made to land at a beach. They help military troops move from their transport ships to the beach, when they cannot use a port. They are also used to deliver supplies and vehicles for troops. To get onto a beach, the landing craft has to be flat-bottomed. The lack of a proper keel makes them uncomfortable in rough seas.
Landing Craft Media
Anzac Beach amphibious landing, on April 25, 1915.
US Landing Craft Mechanized during the invasion of Kiska
In 1941 a Marine Corps officer showed Higgins a picture of the Imperial Japanese Army practicing landings with the Daihatsu landing craft in 1935, a landing craft with a ramp in the bow, and Higgins was asked to incorporate this design into his Eureka boat. He did so, producing the basic design for the Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP), often simply called the Higgins boat.
Canadian landings at Juno Beach in the Landing Craft Assault.
Royal Navy Beach Commandos aboard a Landing Craft Assault of the 529th Flotilla, Royal Navy.
USS LCI-326, a Landing Craft Infantry, during training for D-Day.
Two examples of the LCM 1 on returning to ships during the 1942 Dieppe Raid
A Crusader I tank emerges from the Tank Landing Craft TLC-124, 26 April 1942
LCT-202 off the coast of England, 1944.
A Canadian LST off-loads an M4 Sherman during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.
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