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A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(ii)
Study A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(ii), a Dr. Alex Clarke video from 2 May 2020, with 12 time notes. Topics include Amphibious Warfare, Landing Ships, Royal Navy.
Time notes
- 2:32Shinshu Maru and the landing ship dock lineageChapter
Why Shinshu Maru was probably the first landing ship dock, yet Allied wartime dock ships developed without directly imitating the Japanese design.
- 6:12Train ferries become stern-chute landing shipsChapter
How prewar carrier studies led British planners to turn short-ranged train ferries into stern-chute ships that could launch eleven LCMs quickly.
- 9:12Train ferries help rebuild Allied rail logistics after D-DayNotable Point
Why the ferries resumed locomotive transport after Allied bombing damaged the railways needed to supply the advance from Normandy.
- 10:19Landing ship gantries provide long-range landing-craft liftChapter
How the limits of stern-chute ships led to long-range gantry conversions of Dale-class RFA oilers that could launch their craft in about thirty-five minutes.
- 12:49Fresh-water supply for Far East amphibious operationsNotable Point
Plans to retake Singapore and advance toward Japan led to a proposal to dedicate an entire gantry ship to carrying fresh water.
- 14:36Why Operation Ironclad targeted MadagascarChapter
Why Madagascar mattered to Allied sea routes linking Britain and the United States with Australia, India, and the Persian Gulf in 1942.
- 15:50Operation Ironclad assembles a complete amphibious fleetChapter
How Ironclad combined troopships, infantry landing ships, a headquarters ship, gantry ships, oilers, and an early LST into an integrated amphibious force.
- 20:50The wartime landing ship dock requirementChapter
How a September 1941 requirement called for dock ships that could carry large tank landing craft across operational distances.
- 22:46LSTs carry LCT(5)s as deck cargoNotable Point
An improvised system carried an LCT(5) on an LST's upper deck and launched it over the side, extending the smaller craft's reach.
- 24:16The LST's wartime record challenges the 'large slow target' nicknameNotable Point
Why its low loss count and capacity to carry deployable landing craft made the LST one of the war's most important ship types.
- 25:25Industrial adaptation for mechanized amphibious warNotable Point
How wartime landing ships adapted familiar cranes, davits, ferries, and liners to the logistical demands of mechanized amphibious assault.
- 27:23Stern-ramp boat launching has a long historyNotable Point
A wartime stern-chute launch shows that navies used ramp-launched small boats long before the concept acquired modern force-multiplier language.