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| World War Two Memorial Bradford, Virginia A must see when in the area. |
| New design high speed (70 MPH) troop and equipment transporter being now tested |
| LST's at Wonsan, Korea They were not just for WWII |
| LCVP Higgins Boat delivering troops to the Beachhead |
| SMALL CRAFT TRANSPORTS and other kinda interesting things |
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| Newer vewrsion LST Disembarking AMTRACs from the rear well |
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| Sometimes they get up close and personal LST's in staging areas during WWII |
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Pontoons, not always motorized, but sometimes absolutely neccessary to get over the sandbars and reefs. SeaBat's Dad a Motor Mac on LST 125 was called upon to operated these motorized pontoons at times in the Pacific during WWII. |
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| Pontoons were used at the Beachheads, but the SeaBees had to provide acesses over rivers and streams inland |
SAY WHAT???? "Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally." (Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's) I only recall being warned of the pretty girls (ccb) |
| Are SEA BEES Engineers ?? The fastest way to get an engineer to solve a problem is to declare that the problem is unsolvable. No engineer can walk away from an unsolvable problem until it's solved. No illness or distraction is sufficient to get the engineer off the case. These types of challenges quickly become personal-a battle between the engineer and the laws of nature. Engineers will go without food and hygiene for days to solve a problem. (Other times just because they forgot.) And when they succeed in solving the problem they will experience an ego rush that is said to be better than sex. Nothing is more threatening to the engineer than the suggestion that somebody has more technical skill. Normal people sometimes use that knowledge as a lever to extract more work from the engineer. When an engineer says that something can't be done (a code phrase that means it's not fun to do), some clever normal people have learned to glance at the engineer with a look of compassion and pity and say something along these lines: "I'll ask Bob to figure it out. .... He knows how to solve difficult technical problems." At that point it is a good idea for the normal person to not stand between the engineer and the problem. The engineer will set upon the problem like a starved Chihuahua on a pork chop. |
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| Now they have "drive up - extend out - roll over bridges, kinda like fast food drivethroughs |
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