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UTUSN

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Sun Mar-26-06 01:45 PM
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23. There're also supply Navy ships, LSTs, up & down the rivers

Edited on Sun Mar-26-06 01:54 PM by UTUSN

Not everybody who volunteered did it to "get out of" this or that. And besides the swiftboats, SEALs, and Seabees, these supply ships were exposed to plenty of potential damage. From rocket lauchers at the tree lines and mines in the rivers. Loaded up with pallets of cement, bulldozers, and miscellaneous, travelled down the river to unload at a small Army base, and back again, three weeks round trip at a time. LSTs that were built for D-Day were still being used. Crew of 250. Hollow insides, not unknown to break in half.

Btw, LST stands for landing ship-tank. But unofficially, "large, slow target".

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