Unseen Body Blows: The Fighting LST 479 and its Seven Pacific Campaigns, 1943-1945 Middlefield Family Novel Haunting and beautiful

Haunting and beautiful

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battling at times against overwhelming odds in a hostile country

with Turkey on its northern margins

Unseen Body Blows: The Fighting LST 479 and its Seven Pacific Campaigns, 1943-1945 Middlefield Family Novel Haunting and beautifulBetween 1942 and 1945, 1,051 amphibious tank landing ships were rapidly produced. These were anonymous vessels, slow and unwieldy, and in the words of one crewmember, they looked like bathtubs. At first, LSTs had a reputation of being expendable and of relatively low value, and so were bestowed another, less noble, nickname; "Large Slow Targets." Put into service to get troops and equipment ashore, the story of LST 479 is in some respects the story of