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Landing Craft Flak were equipped with 20 mm Oerlikons and four QF 2 pdr "pom-poms" to defend against aircraft. The Landing Craft Flak (LCF) was a conversion of the LCT that was intended to give anti-aircraft support to the landing. They were first used in the Dieppe Raid early in 1942. The ramp was welded shut, and a deck built on top of the ...
The Marinefährprahm (MFP, naval ferry barge) was the largest landing craft operated by the German Kriegsmarine during World War II.The MFP was used for transport, minelaying, as an escort and a gunboat in the Mediterranean, Baltic and Black Seas as well as the English Channel and Norwegian coastal waters.
The Siebel ferry (Siebelfähre) was a shallow-draft catamaran landing craft operated by Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II.It served a variety of roles (transport, flak ship, gunboat, convoy escort, minelayer) in the Mediterranean, Baltic and Black Seas as well as along the English Channel.
LCF – Landing Craft Flak, a landing craft fitted with anti-aircraft guns; LCM – Landing Craft Mechanized; LCT – Landing Craft Tank; LCT (Armored) – Landing Craft Tank (Armored) (see Landing craft tank#Conversions and modifications) LCT (High Explosive) – Landing Craft Tank (High Explosive) – landing craft carrying self-propelled ...
Landing Craft Flak Landing craft flaks were equipped with 20 mm Oerlikons and four QF 2 pdr "pom-poms" to defend against aircraft. The Landing Craft Flak (LCF) was a conversion of the LCT that was intended to give anti-aircraft support to the landing. They were first used in the Dieppe Raid early in 1942. The ramp was welded shut, and a deck ...
The landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat was a landing craft used extensively by the Allied forces in amphibious landings in World War II.Typically constructed from plywood, this shallow-draft, barge-like boat could ferry a roughly platoon-sized complement of 36 men to shore at 12 knots (14 mph; 22 km/h).
The Landing Craft, Tank (LCT) (or tank landing craft, TLC) [1] [2] was an amphibious assault craft for landing tanks on beachheads. They were initially developed by the Royal Navy and later by the United States Navy during World War II in a series of versions.
German Navy landing craft (Marinefährprahm) were grouped into twenty separate flotillas (Landungsflottillen) during the Second World War with the first landing craft flotilla established in November 1941 for operations in the Black Sea. In tactical situations, transport craft were deployed by the Navy groups as part of landing operations.