The Amphibious Vehicle, Tracked (LVT or AMTRAC) is an amphibious warfare vehicle and amphibious landing craft, introduced by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. (The USN and USMC use "L" to designate Amphibious vessels, also called "L class".)

On November 20, 1943, the 2nd Amphibian Tractor Battalion launched 75 up-armored LVT-1s and 50 LVT-2s from Landing Ship Tanks (LSTs) off the Tarawa Atoll. This was the first combat assault by amphibian tractors and set the standard for every amphibious assault that followed.

The Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) was an amphibious vehicle used by the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Army during World War II. It was widely known as amphtrack, amtrak, amtrac etc., a portmanteau of amphibious tractor. History.

The Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) was a class of amphibious warfare vehicle, a small amphibious landing craft, introduced by the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Army during World War II. Originally intended solely as cargo carriers …

The LVT(2), LVT(3) and LVT(4) are slow, lightly armored or unarmored amphibian tractors designed to transport troops and cargo from ship to shore, or shore to shore. Troops and cargo must be loaded and unloaded over the sides of the LVT(2).

2022年10月24日 · WWII saw the birth of the Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) amphibious assault vehicle, known variously as the "amtrak", "amtrac", "alligator", or "buffalo", among other nicknames. The vehicle was the answer to the Marine’s need for a protected transport capable of traversing surf and coral.

2018年10月8日 · During the mid-to-latter half of the Cold War years, when the United States and the Soviet Union headed an arms range of unseen of proportions, the U.S. military relied on the LVT-5 as its proven ship-to-shore workhorse.

2018年10月17日 · The LVT ("Landing Vehicle Tracked") began a long line of amphibious tracked American military vehicles for the US Army and Marine Corps that still continues today.

2006年5月23日 · The development of the amphibian tractor, or LVT, which began in the middle 1930s provided the solution and was one of the most important modern technical contributions to ships-to-shore operations. Without these landing vehicles our amphibious offensive in the Pacific would have been impossible.

Forty of the 36-foot type landing boats (LCVPs) and from six to eight of the LCM (3) type landing boats are required normally to land a Reinforced Battalion Landing Team. The additional boats that form the Boat Group are supplied by other vessels of the Transport Division.