You know those little boats

That they used in war to make d-day beach landing ? They speed up to the beach at about 5 miles an hour , then hit the beach, where the bad guys are waiting with real guns and when you hit the beach the damn door opens in the front. Who's idea was that? Did we buy some of our equipment from the Japs or the Germans? I've climbed over the side of a perfectly good, leak free ship down a cargo net with everything i own in a pack crammed in with as many as possible(and some got sea sick) I'm talking projectile sick. I mean the bad guys had to be chuckling like shooting fish in a barrel. Somewhere on that landing craft had to be a label that said made in Japan or powered by Volkswagen. Inquiring minds wanna know .

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GerOttman · 61-69, M

Ehh... somehow it worked!

kentex35 · 100+, M

@GerOttman as I was getting my separation papers I heard they had 9 of the new amtracs(amphibious tractors) in service they had rear exit doors and ran on diesel . The old ones ran one gasoline and held 480 gallons. The fumes were real bad inside those things. The boats were open top. Amtracs were like armored personnel carriers only designed to float to get you from ship to shore so no worries there about getting shot, that is til the door opened in front lol. And everyone squirted out like in a Marx brothers movie. Ever see the movie "Duck Soup"?

GerOttman · 61-69, M

@kentex35 I've seen all the Marx movies. I like the hover craft landers they use now. That would have worked much better I think and the technology was more or less available at the time. Surprised no one thought of using airboats also!

kentex35 · 100+, M

@GerOttman I'm hip. And those air boats didn't hurt if they run over you I've heard. Wonder how long it took to blow them up. Kidding.

kentex35 · 100+, M

those things could take you all the way to the high water mark before jumping out. Sometimes there's a lot of beach to be running your little heart out.

GerOttman · 61-69, M

@kentex35 yeah but with an airboat you could go in at high tide and skim over or around most of the obstacles. they went in at low tide to avoid all those bog iron x-things with the mines on them.