Produktbeschreibung
The Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat was a landing craft used extensively in World War II. Andrew Higgins of Higgins Industries in Louisiana, USA, designed the craft. It was based on boats the company made for operating in swamps and marshes.
The LCVP was a modification of the Higgins Industries "Eureka" boat and similar to the Navy's version, the LCPL.
More than 20,000 were built making it the most numerous of WWII's famous Higgins Boats.
It was constructed from plywood and had a shallow-draft much like a barge. It could transport a platoon-sized complement of 36 fully armed men to shore at 9 knots (17 kph). The men entered the boat by climbing down a cargo net hung from the side of their troop transport and exited out the boat's bow ramp.
It could also transport light vehicles, and other equipment and supplies essential to amphibious operations.
It was the LCVP that was used for much of the Normandy D-Day landings, as well the landing in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, southern France, and the landing operations on Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and many other Japanese held Pacific islands.
The LCVP could land a platoon, turn around without broaching in the surf, and go back out to get more troops and supplies. This was critical to its success. Any landing craft that could not extract itself would hinder the ability of following waves to reach the beachhead.
The tough, highly manoeuvrable Higgins boat allowed Allied commanders to plan their assaults on relatively lightly defended coast and then support a beachhead staging area rather than be forced to capture a port city with wharves and facilities to offload men and material.
The LCVP Higgins boats landed more Allied troops during the war than all other types of landing craft combined.
Specifications:
Displacement: 18,000 lb (8,000 kg)
Length: 36 ft 3 in (11.0 m)
Beam: 10 ft 10 in (3.3 m)
Draft: 3 ft aft, 2 ft 2 in forward (0.9, 0.7 m)
Speed: 9 knots (17 kph)
Armament: 2 × .30 cal (7.62 mm) machine guns
Crew: 3
Capacity: 36 troops or 6,000 lb (2,700 kg) vehicle
or 8,100 lb (3,700 kg) general cargo
Engine: 225 hp (168 kW) Diesel (Gray) or
250 hp (186 kW) gasoline (Hall-Scott) engines
In Flames Of War -
The LCVP landing craft is used with the Amphibious Assaults rules and the Mission Hit the Beach form D-Day.
Depending on the size of your landing force one or two box-sets of LCVP landing craft will give your requirement for Amphibious games.
Designed by Evan
Painted by Jeremy
Note: Infantry passengers are for filling the landing craft and can not be fielded as riflemen. |
