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The Amphibious Vehicle, Tracked (LVT) is an amphibious warfare vehicle and amphibious landing craft, introduced by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. (The USN and USMC use "L" to designate Amphibious vessels, also called "L class".) The United States Army, Canadian Army and British Army used several LVT models during World ...
Maximum speed. 48 km/h (30 mph), in water 11 km/h (6.8 mph) The LVTP-5 (landing vehicle, tracked, personnel 5) is a family of amphibious armored fighting vehicles used by the Philippine Marine Corps, the Republic of China Marine Corps, and, formerly, the United States Marine Corps. It was designed by the BorgWarner company and built by FMC ...
The Assault Amphibious Vehicle[2][3] (AAV)—official designation AAVP-7A1 (formerly known as Landing Vehicle, Tracked, Personnel-7 abbr. LVTP-7)—is a fully tracked amphibious landing vehicle manufactured by U.S. Combat Systems (previously by United Defense, a former division of FMC Corporation). [4][5] The AAV-P7/A1 is the current amphibious ...
WWII/Korea LVT Museum. The WWII/Korea LVT Museum is located in a Quonset hut -style building at Camp Del Mar, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, near the Assault Amphibian School Battalion Training Command. It houses exhibits on landing vehicles tracked (LVTs) from World War II and the Korean War, including six vintage models used by ...
USS LST-742 on 13 October 1950 at Wolmi-do island, Incheon Harbor, South Korea, loading supplies for the upcoming Wonsan invasion. Amphibious Training Base (ATB) (USNATB) Advance Amphibious Training Base are United States Armed Forces bases used for the training of amphibious warfare. [1] Starting with World War II, United States Navy began ...
During World War II, the battalion was primarily armed with Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT), specifically the LVT-2 also known as "WATER BUFFALOS". First flag on Guam on boat hook mast. Two U.S. officers plant the American flag on Guam July 20, 1944. The battalion fought in the following combat actions: Bougainville with 124 LVT-1s
The fourth incarnation of the military's Landing Vehicle, Tracked line of amphibious carrier vehicles, the Water Buffalo was designed in 1943 with major upgrades and improvements to its landing ramp.
76 mm Gun Motor Carriage M10 (3"/76 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) 76 mm Gun Motor Carriage M18 Hellcat (76 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) 90 mm Gun Motor Carriage M36 Jackson (90 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) Landing Vehicle Tracked (armored) (LVT(A))1/2/4/5 (amphibious full-track) 81 mm mortar carrier M4/A1; M21 mortar motor carriage