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The LCM-8 ("Mike Boat") is a river boat and mechanized landing craft used by the United States Navy and Army during the Vietnam War and subsequent operations. They are currently used by governments and private organizations throughout the world. The acronym stands for "Landing Craft Mechanized, Mark 8".
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Two British LCM(1)s after the Dieppe Raid 1942. The landing craft, mechanised Mark I, was an early British model. It was able to be slung under the davits of a liner or on a cargo ship boom with the result that it was limited to a 16-ton tank.
LCI(M)-760 was assigned to the Pacific and took part in two combat actions, the Iwo Jima landings (as LCI(G)-760) from 19 to 26 February 1945 and the Okinawa landings from 26 March 1945 to 14 June 1945. According to renowned Naval historian, Samuel Eliot Morison, she was lightly damaged by a near miss from a coastal battery, while configured as ...
The moment captured in the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" went on to have a new life when Felix de Weldon used it as the basis for his sculpture at Marine Corps War Memorial ...
On 16 February, Squadron 16, of which Division 47 was a part, steamed to Iwo Jima and was part of the Battle of Iwo Jima. USS Rutland (APA-192) lowering an LCM off Iwo Jima, 1945. At Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945, she took part in the assault of the fortified island. She supported her landing craft that operated on Red Beaches 1 and 2. For eight ...
Their hulls were based on the Iwo Jima-class Landing Platform Helicopter (LPH) design due to the need for flat deck space for multiple antennas. After the retirement of the fleet flagships [cruisers] (see also List of cruisers of the United States Navy § Command cruisers (CLC, CC) ) these ships would be pressed into that role despite their ...
The other two landing craft were the 50-foot (15 m)-long LCM (3), capable of carrying 60 troops or 30 tons (27 t) of cargo, or the 56-foot (17 m) LCM (6). [1] They also carried one gig . The Haskell -class ships were armed with one 5"/38 caliber gun , twelve Bofors 40 mm L/60 guns (one quad mount, four dual mounts), and ten Oerlikon 20 mm guns .