The Development of Marine Corps Tracked Landing Vehicles

Abstract

It is very doubtful whether the amphibious landings by the U.S. Armed Forces on the Japanese held islands in the Pacific during World War II would have been successful without the massive deployment of tracked landing vehicles. The Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT1) chosen by the Marine Corps in 1941 for War production, was patterned after Donald Roebling's successful Alligator, conceived for rescue operations during hurricane flooding in Florida. This paper describes the development of this peaceful rescue craft and its transformation into a military vehicle which was used extensively in World War II. Keywords: Operational readiness, Operational effectiveness, Marine corps equipment. Amphibious vehicles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA191831

Entities

People

  • Celia D. Metz

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Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ammunition
  • Amphibious Operations
  • Amphibious Vehicles
  • Beach Heads
  • Boats
  • Combat Operations
  • Corporations
  • Deployment
  • Guns
  • Landing Craft
  • Lepidoptera
  • Logistics
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Military Vehicles
  • Second World War
  • Transport Ships
  • United States

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