LANDING VEHICLE TRACKED WWII DOCUMENTARY FILM 81414
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- This “restricted” World War II-era black-and-white film was produced by the US Navy to introduce the viewer to the LTV - the Landing Vehicle Tracked (an amphibious warfare vehicle and amphibious landing craft). An LTV “narrates” the film as the vehicle is shown being utilized by US Marines (mark 00:52) on a test course. Maneuvering across the ditches and through mud, we’re told how it could also be used as a bridge if necessary, as we see at mark 01:30. An LTV emerges from a tank landing ship and hits an unidentified beach in the Pacific Ocean at mark 02:25 while taking fire. Combat footage fills the screen as the action is narrated including Japanese soldiers being burned from their hiding places by flamethrowers (mark 04:45). LVTs are used to transport wounded Marines from the battlefield to hospital ships (mark 05:10) before returning to the firing lines, where a flamethrower is affixed to the vehicle (mark 05:55) “where we give that hill the hot foot - but good.” Following some routine maintenance, the LTV is ready for action while new vehicles that only recently rolled off assembly lines are ready for the war.
The Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) is an amphibious warfare vehicle and amphibious landing craft, introduced by the United States Navy. The United States Marine Corps, United States Army, and Canadian and British armies used several LVT models during World War II.
Originally intended solely as cargo carriers for ship to shore operations, they evolved into assault troop and fire support vehicles. The types were known as amphtrack, "Amtrak", "amtrac", etc. (portmanteaus of "amphibious tractor"), and "alligator" or "gator".
The contract to build the first 200 LVTs was awarded to the Food Machinery Corporation (FMC), a manufacturer of insecticide spray pumps and other farm equipment, which built some parts for the Alligators. The initial 200 LVTs were built at FMC's Dunedin, Florida factory, where most of the improvement work had been done as well. The first production LVT rolled out of the plant in July, 1941.[3] Later wartime LVT production was expanded by FMC and the Navy to four factories, including the initial facility in Dunedin; the new facilities were located in Lakeland, Florida, Riverside, California, and San Jose, California.
The LVT-1 could carry 18 fully equipped men or 4,500 pounds (2,041 kg) of cargo. Originally intended to carry replenishment from ships to shore, they lacked armor protection and their tracks and suspension were unreliable when used on hard terrain. However, the Marines soon recognized the potential of the LVT as an assault vehicle. A battalion of LVTs was ready for 1st Marine Division by 16 February 1942. The LVTs saw their first operational use in Guadalcanal, where they were used exclusively for landing supplies. About 128 LVTs were available for the landings.
In 1941 the USMC recommended development of an LVT armed with a 37mm gun and three machine guns and armored against 0.50 (12.7mm) machine gun fire, the LVT-2 Buffalo. Armored versions were introduced as well as fire support versions, dubbed Amtanks, which were fitted with turrets from Stuart series light tanks (LVT(A)-1) and Howitzer Motor Carriage M8s (LVT(A)-4).
Production continued throughout the war, resulting in 18,621 LVTs delivered. 23 US Army and 11 USMC battalions were equipped in 1945 with LVTS. British and Australian armies also used LVTs in combat during World War two.
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"I slips a cable and... WHOOPS! I'm almost a submarine" LMAOOOOOO
"Boy, when you've been mopped up by the Marines, YOU stay mopped up"!! That's Goddamn right Mac!!
My father and hero Gilbert Ginsel was a crew chief on an LVT in WWII seeing combat in Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guadalcanal, Guam & Saipan. He passed in 2014 age 90. RIP dad.
My uncle John was a Marine and bow gunner on an LVT first wave at Saipan. One of my second cousins, his grandson, found a photo of the LVTs going in at Saipan a few years ago that had a caption that it was the first wave. He didn't realize that his grandfather was in the photo until I pointed it out to him. He was born several years after my uncle had passed away.
I love these WW2 one liners
I’d love to have one of these.
Rick the mullet man is that you?
idontcare9797 Sure is! 😀🇺🇸👍
I enjoy having Al Capone narrating this.
Thanks for this👍.. USMC were based where I am in WW2 and today is ANZAC Day.. Lest we forget 🇳🇿
Good ole LVT. My favorite landing craft of ww2.
It’s really refreshing to hear from the point of view of the vehicles themselves! I hope this one made it through the war😌
Love the animated narration
It's the coral! We're stuck in the-
LVT2, with the engine in the rear. LTV4 had the engine up front and a loading ramp in the rear. No more over the side which was the big drawback of the 2 and the fact the drive shaft ran down the middle of the troop compartment.
Over the side sometimes was better if the enemy has a bead on the front of the craft.
@@nole8923not for an lvt its not
I’ve ridden in the LVTP-5 & 7. This model could use a plate around the 50. Always wondered why the Army didn’t use these at Normandy instead of the Higgin’s boats?
The p7’s are still in use today actually. Outside of the dual support roller/comms they are the exact same today as when you rode in one in the 70’s.
They have an Amtrak museum in the delmar area at Camp Pendleton. The have every single amtrack in history that you can get on, some ww2 memorabilia (Japanese soldiers trinkets, guns, knives, etc). It’s a really cool place to check out especially if you’re into ww2 stuff
@@tyler7937 they used to have an outdoor museum at Mainside.
I'd guess because of capacity and size. Can't carry as many troops and can't handle as big of seas
Semper Fi to those who operated these amtracs
This is a late-war Amtrack, the D-Model seem in the beginning. Later models show the A and B versions used in 42/43.
Why is the tank such a wise guy eh? Lol
Like he was in the mob post war.
Shame about the poor quality of the film to digital transfer.
Otherwise a great subject.
I wish someone had video of the LVT P-5s and LVT E-1 Land Mine Clearing vehicles we used in Vietnam?
4:13 guy on the right has two Thompsons
Sometimes a dude needs two. 😀
He's got max level upgrades
Good eye!
The person next to him probably got shot and killed, so he picked up the other gun.
at d-day they modified Shermans to float which failed. why didn't they use these in the first waves?
I believe they expected pretty stiff resistance and wanted something with a gun and armor. This thing is basically a ton and a half truck with tracks and a pea shooter. The armor is better than air, but not much. It was designed to keep out water, not bullets.
They were all being used in the Pacific.
Plenty of sherman tanks didnt sink on the other beeches but the ship that unloaded the Omaha beech was too far out, the captain was scared of being hit because he thought the point Du hock german guns had not been knocked out because he couldn't see and destructed smoke, but in reality they had been moved back from the coast, yep he messed up omaha landings out of 27-30 Shermans sent one got to the beech.
In the Pacific, this would have been classed as a "light tank" due the Japanese not having a very good anti-armour doctrine or capability. Tank warfare was practically pre-war in this theatre. The 50 cal was god in a basically infantry war. The heaviest Japanese tank would have been out-classed by the average armoured car in the west.
In the European theatre, this would have been classed as a "soft target". The Germans where very good at destroying much heavier enemy armour. The allies need real tanks on the beaches which the landing craft could carry but LVTs couldn't.
Since the British where fully capable of building it and didn't, either making non-amphibious vehicles float (Sherman DDs, etc) or using or building wheeled amphibious vehicles (terrapin, DUKW, etc), I'd suspect that up-arming a soft target when you didn't have to was not a priority.
@@SpaceManin
I hope that captain was held accountable. He sacrificed the lives of hundreds of men so he could be safe. What a jerk.
I wonder how many lives could have been saved if these LVTs had been used on the D Day beach landings ? Fitted with a turrented flame thrower it would have inflicted enormous fear into the entrenched Germans. When you watch the opening scenes of “Saving PVT Ryan” and see the troops just being mowed down because of the forward opening ramps of the landing craft they used instead you can’t help but feel hopeless for them.
There were LVTs o D-Day. But very few since the invasion was huge and the LVTs were needed in the pacific.
Not really, as not all LVT's had the back ramp at the time. Many LVT's still had the fixed body which was unsafe because passengers had to exit by climbing on its side. With heavy gear plus enemy gunfire raking the beach, it's just tough. That was one of the main concerns during the landings in the battles of the Pacific. However, the good thing about the LVT's is that it can be mounted with a .50 cal/.30 cal machine gun unlike the higgins boat.
At Omaha beach, they landed directly in front of the pillboxes and without tanks. The Brits did much better in their landings because they waited for less choppy seas and landed tanks directly in front of pillboxes instead of infantry
You are good looking lvt
I bet its goin to be useful during d day
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YAT-YAS!
Is it now YAWYAS since the ACV has wheels? 😂
the US Navy boasting about the merits of the LVT...then they refused the US Army the loan of any for D Day,instead keeping them for the Marines in the Pacific,apart from a few issued to the Uk for the crossing of the shelt estuary in Holland.one wonders how many American lives could have been saved by driving these onto the beach on d day instead of opening the bow doors of landing craft into machine gun fire.
Army-Navy intra-service rivalry had many terrible effects during WWII and after. This is one I have not heard about but absolutely plausible.
Thank you for answering a question that nagged at me. why didnt they use weaponized amtraks on D Day instead of those lame ass DD tanks.? In the event of agency competition, why didnt FDR step in and re-assign
LVTs by fiat ? much faster and nimbler than the DD, I would have mounted a rapid fire AA gun on the front, would have shred pillboxes and MG nests. agree that many lives would have been saved.
Actually the dumbass army said it wasn't tested enough and didint use it
There were LVTs o D-Day. But very few since the invasion was huge and the LVTs were needed in the pacific.
LVT's were in use by the Army in the river crossings in Germany in late 1944/45. The Navy didn't refuse the use of the LVT to the Army, but there just weren't enough of them to send to England in time for all the pre D-Day rehearsals. The Army rightly didn't want to throw the few available into the largest amphibious assault in history without there being sufficient time to train on them as they were complicated machines to drive and maintain . Hundreds were transferred to the Army once production numbers increased and the pace of Pacific landings decreased.
Why do the narrators always have a New York accent?
I need this
E têm no WarThunder esse LVT
YAT-YAS
YAT-YAS
The tank is talking haha
I thought it was cute this video is fun and informative.
7:05 must be a rare one
Did anyone catch a marine dual wielding Thompsons in this?
Many of these were manufactured by Graham.
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Jackson Skyway
Buffalo 👍🏻
Mayer Brooks
Smith Burg
Funny the way they relate to people in the 40s
Parker Circles
“Ask Joe, Joe should know.”
*Who’s Joe?*
Biden.....he was in his 60s at the beginning of ww2!!
Cecelia Radial
Just think how many lives would have been saved on Omaha if SHAEF had concentrated more on providing the men these rather than the funnies.
I've wondered why they didn't for my entire 63 years on earth.
Those men had 500yds of open beach to cross...
The landing beach and its defenses were not destroyed or disrupted like the other beaches, by Allied bombing.
I think fewer American soldiers would have drowned needlessly by being dropped off too far from shore, but the few tanks in to make it ashore first were taken out by artillery on the beaches.
The LVTs wouldn't have stopped on the beach looking for targets, though, like I assume the tanks did.
More personnel would have reached the sea wall alive.
There was still the barbed wire and mines to contend with, though.
The 'Funnies' came into their own when the top brass finally understood how to use them properly.
One British unit of Funnies had to beg for their loaned out vehicles and personnel to be returned. The OCs liked to keep them on hand and returned them reluctantly.
LVTs were used at Omaha beach to ferry supplies.
US Army doctrine in Europe relied on the DD tanks to do the assault.
The British had some 200 LVTs in 43. These were the early model LVT-1 used for training in preparation for the war in Europe.
The LVT-1 was not armoured and had reliability issues as all early models do.
If the US Army had paid attention to the developments in the Pacific, the latter models would have served the Normandy landings better.
Maggio Court
Anyone catch the "US ARMY" on back of the one @4:57? lol
Marines used a lot of the same equipment as Army. Not that out of the ordinary as far as I know
The Army actually conducted more amphibious landings in the Pacific than the Marines did in WW2. LVTs were used in the Rhine River crossings in Europe as well.
@@c3alohayou’re definition of amphibious landing must be loose because that is 100% not true
@@rhett1029 check it because they did. And I’m a Marine admitting it.
Greta Glens
a rather childish and silly, boring commentry
I think this was mean to be played for children, so I guess that would make sense
@@joaqstarr No, it was meant to be played to workers actually producing LVTs. I assume there was some attempt to be entertaining since it wasn't being shown to the troops.
Joaqstarr
It was for workers who didn’t want to die of boredom. The 40s was way different than now.
Ok boomer
That was seventy years ago in a world you know nothing about ! Don’t be a jerk.