US troops disembarking from a LARC-LX amphibious vehicle, 1950s?

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PugJesus@kbin.social · 14 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Imagine this big beast rolling up on your position and just vomiting troops out. Oversized land vehicles are a gift and I will hear nothing to the contrary.

Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 2y

Well shitty little boats did NOT do the job as well as this thing might have on D Day. Can't have a funnel of death if there is no funnel!

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The structural rigidity of that thing looks… a bit floppy.

nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y

Well if it's a landing craft then it's mostly hollow . I wonder how many combat landings they see these things taking part in before they're scrap.

Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 2y

Thing looks like it’s skinned with waxed cardboard.

robdor@lemmynsfw.com · 8 pts · 2y

Service guarantees citizenship.

prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y

What’s wild is they ultimately deemed this capability very useful and now they use LCAC (hovercraft).

PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y
Thorry84@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 2y

Thank you for posting the original and not a colorized or even worse AI colorized version. Having color in an old pic can be nice, but it's also rewriting history and replacing something original with something fake.

dasgoat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

The war museum in Overloon, The Netherlands has one of these on display. It's massive. Bigger than you can imagine.