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Originally Posted by Brit
Obviously, will look myself... new project...
I think I read - Challange? Forum? Website? - that in T2K old / re-used Landing Craft would take over duties that helicopters would have done delivering cargo, etc, where they had access. I have seen photos of ones - ex-WWII - being converted with accomodation and landing pads in Indo-China (French?) and Vietnam (US?).
Are any preserved in The USA? They may not be 'glamourous' enough but are smaller, i.e. take up less space than an Aircraft Carrier!
(In The UK there are still some vessels in use that took part in the Dunkirk Evacuation).
Any LCAs, etc, in private hands, i.e. like DUKWs are?
Thanks.
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I am almost certain none of these are in running order, but the US Army Transportation Museum has a
LARC, a
BARC, and the last surviving
Bell SK-5. The Wikipedia articles claim there are ~100 LARC in private hands and that the BARC was in service until 2001.
There are also a few surviving
Landing Ship, Tank, including the New London to Orient ferry MV
Cape Henlopen (ex-MV
Virginia Beach, ex-USS
Buncombe County, ex-
LST-510).
I'm sure there are others, but I don't personally know of them.