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Landing Craft Utility

The smallest landing craft were the US-designed DUKW, basically an amphibious truck, and the Landing Vehicle Tracked, an amphibious armoured personnel carrier. These were operated by Army personnel, not naval crews. They had a capacity of about 3 tons.
Then came the British Landing Craft Assault (LCA) small craft intended to be transported around by larger vessels then lowered into the water off the target beach. Typically they could carry 36 fully-armed soldiers.







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TThe US Landing Craft Vehicle/Personnel (LCVP) was more flexible - it could carry 30 troops or small vehicles such as Jeeps.
Landing Craft, Mechanized were larger capable of carrying one small tank or 100 troops. None of the above was capable of making a voyage longer than about 6 hours, mainly through fuel limitations.














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