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".)

2023年11月29日 · Guam, 1946. These masses of Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) vehicles are piled high in a ravine. This picture was taken on the Island of Guam, at the site of present day Ordot Dump, in 1946. All of these LVT vehicles would have taken part in the invasion of the island two years earlier, in 1944.

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其实，LVT就是Landing Vehicle，Tracked（履带式登陆车）的缩写。 实际上，LVT是一种履带式两栖装甲输送车。 LVT履带式登陆车的出现，提高了登陆作战中从舰到岸这一重要阶段的推进速度，保证从舰到岸作战的连续性，避免上岸时不必要的伤亡，使“两栖作战重新 ...

LVT2, known as Water Buffalo, had a cargo capacity of 5940lbs (2690kg), and incorporated torsilastic suspension. This suspension involved springing the road wheels on rubber springs.

During World War II, the battalion was primarily armed with Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT), specifically the LVT -2 also known as "WATER BUFFALOS". First flag on Guam on boat hook mast. Two U.S. officers plant the American flag on Guam July 20, 1944. The battalion fought in the following combat actions:

Providing clearing firepower was the new, 20-ton LVT-A4 armored amtrak carrying a 75mm howitzer. These two vehicles performed admirably at Saipan and in the invasions of Guam and Tinian in July, Moratai and the Paulaus in September, and Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945.

US Marines practice transferring troops from LCVP landing craft to LVT Water Buffalo in the Solomons preparing for the landings on Guam, Marianas, mid-1944. LVTs headed for the invasion beaches at Humboldt Bay, New Guinea, as cruisers Boise and Phoenix bombard in the background, 22 Apr 1944

LVT(A)s, manned like the troop carriers by Army crews, had the mission of helping neutralize the beaches and then supporting the advance inland by landing on the flanks of the assault...

First used in mid-1944 at Saipan, a total of 8,348 were built during 1943-45 by FMC, Graham-Paige and St. Louis Car Co. Similar to the LVT2, it was the first amtrac to provide much-needed stern...