Unseen Body Blows: The "Fighting LST 479" and its Seven Pacific Campaigns, 1943-1945 by William A. Gay

Unseen Body Blows: The "Fighting LST 479" and its Seven Pacific Campaigns, 1943-1945

William A. Gay

270 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced
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Between 1942 and 1945, 1,051 amphibious tank-landing ships were rapidly produced. These were anonymous vessels, slow and unwieldy, and in the words of one crewmember, they looked like bathtubs. At first, LSTs had a reputation of being expendable a...

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