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A mechanized landing craft (LCM 8), carring an M-60 main battle tank, is guided to a landing on a beach during a Marine Corps training exercise

An M-60 tank is driven ashore from a utility landing craft at Onslow Beach during Exercise Solid Shield '85. In the foreground are two LCM 8 (Landing Craft Mechanized) Mod-1 mechanized landing craft

An M-60 main battle tank takes up a position on the beach during an amphibious assault in support of the multinational joint service Exercise Bright Star '85

An M-60A1 tank is driven off an LCM-8 mechanized landing craft during exercise Ocean Venture '88

M60 main battle tanks are transported aboard LCM 8 mechanized landing craft during an amphibious assault exercise

Marines deploy on a beach after being landed by mechanized landing craft (LCM 8) during a training exercise

An LCM-8 mechanized landing craft carriers a Marine Corps M-60A1 tank ashore during the joint South Korean/U.S. exercise Valiant Blitz '90

An LCM 8 Mod 1 mechanized landing craft carries an M60A1 main battle tank to the beachhead during Exercise OCEAN VENTURE '84. A mecanized landing craft from Assault Craft Unit 2 is on the right

An M-60A1 tank is driven off an LCM-8 mechanized landing craft during exercise Ocean Venture '88

An M-60 main battle tank is off loaded onto a beach from a mechanized landing craft (LCM 8) during a Marine Corps training exercise

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17/02/1982
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label_outline Explore Lcm 8 Mechanized Landing Craft, Mechanized Landing Craft, Ph 1 Dave Maclean

Marines take up their positions during the amphibious assault phase of the multinational, joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR'87. An AAVP 7 assault amphibian vehicle and an M60 main battle tank are in the background

A left side view of a Marine M1A1 main battle tank as it leaves the surf and moves up the beach. The tank is equipped with two air intake towers on the left side of the hull near the back of the turret and an exhaust tower on the rear of the hull, parts

A causeway for utility landing craft extends into the Mediterranean Sea from a US Marine shoreline encampment. The Marines have been deployed in Lebanon as part of a multi-national peacekeeping force following confrontation between Lebanoni forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization

An Mechanized Landing Craft (LCM 8) brings an M-60 tank from the 2nd Platoon, Company B, 1ST tank Battalion, ashore during a training exercise held in preparation for a Western Pacific deployment

American mortar teams wait for a pair of British SA.330 Puma helicopters to transport them from the battle zone during NATO Exercise ARDENT GROUND '87. Members of the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force from Belgium, the Netherlands, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom and the United States are participating in the live artillery/air exercise being staged on Salisbury Plain Training Area in Wiltshire

Marine beachmasters use a TEREX 72-31MP2U/R forklift to load equipment aboard utility landing craft 1659 (LCU 1659) during a multinational peacekeeping operation

Sailors maintain order as a crowd waits to welcome crew members from ships in the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) battle group. The vessels are returning to Norfolk after being deployed in the Persian Gulf area during Operation Desert Storm

A Marine M1A1 main battle tank moves down the open ramp of utility landing craft LCU 1658. The tank is equipped with a fording kit that is being evaluated by the Marine Corps, Naval Amphibious Base (NAB), Little Creek, Virginia (VA)

Life jackets are passed out to all boarding the LCM-8 bound for the U.S. Naval Ship BUTTON at the Pohang Harbor in Pohang, South Korea during Foal Eagle '98, Oct. 10, 1998

A beachmaster guides the driver of a rough-terrain forklift as he drives the vehicle along a causeway from the beach to a utility landing craft (LCU) during the joint services exercise Solid Shield '89

LCACs (Landing Craft, Air Cushioned) are guided ashore for the safety and organization of the training evolution during Exercise KERNEL BLITZ '99 aboard Camp Pendleton, California. KERNEL BLITZ is a bi-annual Commander-in-CHIEF Pacific (CINCPAC) fleet training exercise (FLEETEX) focused on operational/tactical training of Commander, Third Fleet (C3F)/ I Marine Expeditionary Forces (MEF) and Commander, Amphibious Group 3 (CPG-3)/ 1ST Marine Division (MARDIV). KERNEL BLITZ is designed to enhance the training of Sailors and Marines in the complexities of brigade-size amphibious assault operations

Marines armed with bayonet-equipped M-16A2 rifles charge up the beach after coming ashore in mechanized landing craft LCM-19 during an amphibious assault exercise. An air-cushioned landing craft (LCAC) is in position on shore

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battle tank battle tank beach craft lcm marine exercise training exercise m 60 main battle tank mechanized landing craft lcm 8 mechanized landing craft us marine corps high resolution ph 1 dave maclean us national archives