US Marines take up combat position on Tarawa atoll, Gilbert Islands group, Central Pacific; November, 1943. 


Going on the offensive

   LVT (Landing Vehicle Track) "Buffalo" Amtracs landing on Saipan Beach, Mariana Islands, South Pacific; June 15 1944.  
  Saipan saw the massive use of the LVTs by the USMC with six battalions of cargo LVT, including the new ramped LVT-4, and two battalions of armored Amtracs, employing the new LVT(A)-4 with a 75 mm howitzer. 

Marines coming in to land

A US Marine takes 3 local little girls past an amphibious LVT-4 (Landing Vehicle Tracked) to a safe area; Okinawa, Japan, 1945.