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Default Marines landing in Lebanon involves boats


D.Duck wrote:

In 1959 I was participating in a USMC night amphibious practice landing on
what was then called Formosa. The landing craft came to a halt, the ramp
dropped, the first jeep drove off and promptly sunk in six feet of water.



Just think what it was like in Normandy....



 
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