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Landing troops in wartime

Landing craft are small or medium sized boats. These boats help military troops move from their transport ships to the beach. They are also used to deliver supplies and vehicles to support troops. To get onto a beach, the landing craft has to be flat-bottomed. The lack of a proper keel makes them pretty uncomfortable in rough seas.

Boats are often used to deliver passengers from large ships to port areas. These are not called 'landing craft'.


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  • Anzac Beach 4th Bn landing 8am April 25 1915

    Anzac Beach amphibious landing, on April 25, 1915.

  • Kiska Invasion 01

    US Landing Craft Mechanized during the invasion of Kiska

  • IJA-ship-pioneers-with-Daihatsu-landing-craft

    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.

  • British LCA commandos

    Royal Navy Beach Commandos aboard a Landing Craft Assault of the 529th Flotilla, Royal Navy.

  • Invasion Training in England 02

    USS LCI-326, a Landing Craft Infantry, during training for D-Day.

  • The Royal Navy during the Second World War- the Dieppe Raid, August 1942 A11228

    Two examples of the LCM 1 on returning to ships during the 1942 Dieppe Raid

  • IWM-H-19057-Crusader-landing-19420426

    A Crusader I tank emerges from the Tank Landing Craft TLC-124, 26 April 1942

  • LCT202

    LCT-202 off the coast of England, 1944.

  • LST Sicily

    A Canadian LST off-loads an M4 Sherman during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.

  • Landing Craft Infantry-LCI(L)196

    LCI(L) 196 and a DUKW during the Invasion of Sicily 1943 (World War II)

  • Lcf (4) 24 FL5979

    Landing Craft Flak were equipped with 20 mm Oerlikons and four QF 2 pdr "pom-poms" to defend against aircraft.

  • Lcg (l) 680 FL5995

    Landing Craft Gun (Large) 680 carried two 4.7-inch naval guns

  • LCT(R) 459

    LCT (R) 459

  • The Royal Navy during the Second World War A28452
    Royal Marines of Force T manning a LCS (M) in South West Holland
  • Lcs (l) 256 FL5827

    Landing Craft Support (Large) was armed with an anti-tank gun in a turret.

  • LCU2000 class landing craft

    United States Army ships Brandy Station (LCU-2005) and El Caney (LCU-2017) docked in Port Canaveral, Florida.

  • LCAC 19970620

    USN LCAC

  • US Navy 080722-N-1424C-509 The Military Sealift Command large, medium roll-on-roll-off ship USNS Pililaau (T-AKR 304) is anchored off the coast of Red Beach

    US Navy lighterage system - modern landing barges

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