Amphibious Vehicles
Amphibious Vehicles

Author: Michael Green

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781560654605

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Discusses the history and military use of several amphibious vehicles, highlighting specific models and their roles in various battles.

Amtracs
Amtracs

Author: Steven J. Zaloga

Publisher: Osprey Publishing

Published: 1999-09-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781855328501

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The first prototype for the LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) was completed in July 1941, its design based on the Alligator, a tracked amphibious vehicle developed for rescue operations in the swamps of Florida. Though the early conception of amtrac operations envisioned using LVTs solely as supply vehicles, at Tarawa amtracs demonstrated their utility as assault vehicles to carry troops, leading to the development of new models. This book covers the evolution of amtracs, from the first LVT-1 to the LVT-7; their numerous variants; and their use throughout World War II and beyond.

Flying Cars, Amphibious Vehicles and Other Dual Mode Transports
Flying Cars, Amphibious Vehicles and Other Dual Mode Transports

Author: George W. Green

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2010-07-15

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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It wasn't very long after the first commercially viable automobiles came on the scene that ambitious engineers began to dream of vehicles that could travel not only on land but also in the air, or by water. For a century, talented designers have created unique dual purpose vehicles for land, water and air (in various pairings) for both civil and military applications. Sometimes converted from standard vehicles, sometimes beginning as clean-sheet designs, these machines have met the engineering and economic challenges of dual-mode travel with varying degrees of success. This book describes a fascinating array of these vehicles from the United States and abroad, including flying automobiles, roadable aircraft, amphibious vehicles, hovercraft, road-rail trains, and triphibious inventions.

USMC Tracked Amphibious Vehicles
USMC Tracked Amphibious Vehicles

Author: David Doyle

Publisher: Schiffer + ORM

Published: 2023-12-15

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1507304242

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The specific mission of the Marine Corps has led to the development of many unusual and innovative vehicles, amphibious landing craft in particular.

The Tech Behind Amphibious Vehicles
The Tech Behind Amphibious Vehicles

Author: Steve Goldsworthy

Publisher: Tech on Wheels

Published: 2019-08

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1543573061

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You're not imagining it! You just saw a vehicle go straight from land into the ocean. Amphibious vehicles have the unique ability to travel on both land and in water. As militaries look to jet-powered high-speed amphibious vehicles, consumers are taking recreational amphibious vehicles out for a spin. From lightweight streamlined hulls to retractable wheels, take young readers on a journey through the technology that makes these vehicles so amazing.

German Pioneer Equipment and Vehicles
German Pioneer Equipment and Vehicles

Author: Rodolphe Roussille

Publisher: Histoire & Collections

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782352501602

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The fruit of the seven years' research, this is the first of a series devoted to the vehicles and crossing equipment used by the German pioneers during World War Two, a theme neglected by military specialists until now. This book now fills the gap, tracing the development of amphibious vehicles from the initial hesitations in the thirties to the secret projects at the end of the war which remained on the drawing board. Illustrated with thirty or so color profiles and more than 200 black and white period photographs, of which a hundred or so are as yet unpublished, this book is the new reference for as yet relatively unstudied subjects such as: - The Trippelwagen amphibious cars and how they evolved. - The Land-Wasser-Schleppers in all its forms - The L.W.S. II Panzerfähre - The Skoda LWS III Project - Amphibious trailers A historian and model-maker, Rodolphe Roussille has specialized for more than ten years now in engineers' vehicles and equipment, and in the secret weapons developed by the Allies and the Axis forces during WWII; he is the author of numerous articles on the subject.