According to Steven Zaloga in U.S. Marine Corps Tanks of World War II, a captured Japanese anti-tank officer told to his interrogators “the tank-infantry team in this operation was so successful ...

The X18 would hardly be the first tank boat. Starting in the 1930s and going into World War II, Soviet Russia experimented with heavier armed river boats, using already-made tank turrets as the ...

While the boat is docked on the North Shore ... The USS LST-325 is one of only two WWII landing ship tanks in the United States today.

When WWII ended, the Higgins boat's usefulness did not ... along with other American hardware like the M26 Pershing tank and F-86 Sabre. Five years later, Higgins boats helped evacuate Chinese ...

The boat was used to survey the Colorado ... or 60 men fully loaded with gear,” notes the WWII museum website. “A heavy steel ramp allowed tanks to exit directly onto a beach.