NAVY'S TROJAN HORSES: APD Fast Transports

From: Sea Classics | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

In the era before helicopters, the Marines desperately sought means to reach potential hotspots with maximum speed and necessary logistics. The Navy's answer was to convert six old destroyers into high-speed transports which could deliver a Marine strike force ashore almost anywhere

Part I

If the US Marine Corps learned anything from its hurried deployment to protect American property during the Nicaraguan insurrection in 1926, it was an urgent need for quick mobility - having necessary means to deploy a fully-equipped strike force ashore anywhere in the hemisphere with maximum speed and ...

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