1st Battalion, 314th Infantry Regiment, 79th Division prepares to board Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel (LCVP) boats commonly referred to as ‘Higgins Boats’. The unit crossed the Rhine River at Orsoy, Germany, 24-March-1945. The boats in the foreground will be used for Army bridge pontoons.
Packed in a Navy LCVP—landing craft (vehicle, personnel)—U.S. Third Army infantrymen cross the Rhine River near Boppard, Germany, on 25 March 1945. The Navy would ferry more than 26,000 troops to the east bank of the Rhine, greatly facilitating the Western Allies’ drive into the heart of Germany.
U.S. Marines in Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel (LCVPs) head for the beaches at Iwo Jima during the initial landings. In the background is Mount Suribachi, the extinct volcano captured by the Marines after a frontal assault. February 19 1945.
An LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) dispenses a smoke screen to conceal the USS LST-826 at anchor in the background before landing; Okinawa, 1945. [2129 x 1512]
U.S. Marines in Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel (LCVPs) head for the beaches at Iwo Jima during the initial landings. In the background is Mount Suribachi, the extinct volcano captured by the Marines after a frontal assault. February 19 1945.
Higgins boat on display in The National WWII Museum ~ The landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat was a landing craft used extensively in amphibious landings in World War II. [2048x1366]
TIL in 1939, on a hunch and despite having no orders for his boat, Andrew Higgins bought the entire crop of mahogany from the Philippines. Two years later the US Navy ordered production of Higgins' iconic LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel), built with that 1939 mahogany, which helped win WW2. smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl…
Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) or "Higgins Boats" being constructed at Higgins Industries in New Orleans, 1943 [2704x1934] imgur.com/47TiCCX
[5960 x 4982]Landing Craft Personnel, Light (LCPL) on a harbor defense patrol in South Vietnam circa the late 1960s
Japanese personnel disembarking to board landing craft.
"Plasma on the Beach" - US Army medical personnel just a few feet from the surf, are here administering a plasma transfusion to a survivor of a landing craft sunk somewhere off the coast of northern France. Fifth Engineer Special Brigade.
US Marines in Landing Craft Personnel (Large) assigned to the transport USS Hunter Liggett (AP-27) off Guadalcanal, August 7, 1942.
US Marines in Landing Craft Personnel (Large) assigned to the transport USS Hunter Liggett (AP-27) off Guadalcanal, August 7, 1942.
British landing craft LST-422 has hit a German mine off Anzio beach, Italy, ripping a 50 metre hole in her hull & setting the ship's fuel supply alight. 483 Allied troops, mostly asleep alongside vehicles in lower decks, have died, trapped in the sinking, burning vessel.
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Pfc Rocco Festa, Brooklyn, N.Y., brushes up on his French as he awaits transfer from a personnel carrier to a landing craft. Destination: a Normandy beachhead. Aboard SS John Hay. 15 June, 1944.
I hope if we get any maps similar to Gulf of Oman that we have some landing crafts to put vehicles on land, that would be cool
Pfc Rocco Festa, Brooklyn, N.Y., brushes up on his French as he awaits transfer from a personnel carrier to a landing craft. Destination: a Normandy beachhead. Aboard SS John Hay. 15 June, 1944.
Pfc Rocco Festa, Brooklyn, N.Y., brushes up on his French as he awaits transfer from a personnel carrier to a landing craft. Destination: a Normandy beachhead. Aboard SS John Hay. 15 June, 1944.
USS LSM-264 unloading on Iwo Jima's Red Beach One, 2 March 1945. Note the Marine walking along the beach in the foreground, with a broached LCM and other landing craft and vehicle wreckage behind him.
USS LSM-264 unloading on Iwo Jima's Red Beach One, 2 March 1945. Note the Marine walking along the beach in the foreground, with a broached LCM and other landing craft and vehicle wreckage behind him.
Private First Class Rocco Festa, brushes up on his French as he awaits transfer from a personnel carrier to a landing craft, aboard SS John Hay, his destination being Normandy beach. His patch belongs to the 2nd infantry division. reddit.com/gallery/kaefer
American personnel with a captured Japanese Daihatsu-class landing craft at Attu while the landing are still in progress, May 11, 1943.
If the new island is indeed in freemode, some kind of landing craft would be neat to carry vehicles and that over. Especially if business battles acur on the new island. (Yes I know you could destroy said vehicles, but this would be fun to use, especially for role-playing players)
What did the Landing Craft and its personnel do right after the soldiers exited it on D-day?
Obviously the soldiers would go on the beach, but what about those people controlling the craft? Did they stay inside? Did they go back to the ships or stay put?
As a temporary measure, every hangar and landing pad should have its own spawn console for small vehicles and snub craft, like those at planetary garages. Then we could load up our vehicles without having to go to an outpost.
All of the newer hangars and landing pads (everywhere except PO I think) already have what look like cargo doors somewhere on a wall. Why not use these as little spawn garages for snub craft and vehicles? Put a vehicle spawn console next to it and let us load up our vehicles right in the hangar.
Speaking of which, it should be possible to:
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Drive vehicles around on your own landing pad. Right now if you drive a vehicle out of your ship, it gets instantly impounded.
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Let party members enter and land on each others pads, as long as there is space.
I think this would solve a few gameplay problems related to vehicles without requiring new tech or UI work.
A Royal Australian Navy Landing Craft transports Australian Army Armoured Personnel Carriers from HMAS Adelaide to Cowley Beach, during Exercise SEA EXPLORER in Queensland [2000x1333]
Two assault vehicles (engins d'assaut, EA) from Dinassaut 8 during a patrol and escort mission, August 1952. These French-made assault vehicles equipped the Dinassaut in addition to or replacing the LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnal). As with the latter, EA operated in pairs.
A WWII landing craft, the door works too. you can transport soldiers, and vehicles in it to other teams! reddit.com/gallery/mekwku
Passengers and crews for vehicles and artillery! Also very cool vehicles (including a Japanese landing craft!!!) trainshop.co.uk/die-waffe…
Danish Navy Landing Craft Personnel (LCP2) on the hoist of her mothership the HDMS Absalon (L16) [800×600]
Marines aboard an LVTP7 personnel tracked landing vehicle move through the surf toward a beach during Operation UNITAS XXV, 01/06/1984
The Mulberry harbours were built in England for the D-Day landings and floated across to France to land British, American and Canadian personnel. In total they landed 2.5million troops and 500,000 vehicles.
Landing crafts should function as a spawn vehicles until destroyed.
Meaning that the vehicle wouldn't need to be manned for spawning into. It worked pretty well in BF1 imo.
New Intelligence Shows China Is Building More Type-075 Assault Carriers (landing helicopter docks); assembly time in dry dock of about 6 months; now CCP has the second largest fleet of such ships in the world; carries landing craft, attack helicopters and combat air vehicles forbes.com/sites/hisutton…
The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) in flight. This jet-powered craft was used to simulate lunar landing conditions and to train Lunar Module pilots, including Neil Armstrong. He would nearly lose his life to a malfunction while piloting the LLRV, ejecting a mere 200 feet from the ground.
Salerno, 9 September 1943 (Operation Avalanche): General beach scene viewed from the deck of a landing craft. Men and vehicles cross the beach on matting laid down by engineers while a DUKW loaded with equipment drives on to the beach from the sea.
101st Airborne Division personnel cut out of the wreckage of a glider after a rough landing in Holland in September 1944
I made a tourist/passenger craft that lands and has a rover that deploys by a vehicle lift :). Includes custom landing gear and flashing red alert lights v.redd.it/wpd5t85s16y31
Men and assault vehicles storm the beaches of Normandy as allied landing craft make a dent in Germany's West Wall on June 6, 1944.
