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The U.S. Navy's ""Interim"" LSM(R)s in World War II - Rocket Ships of the Pacific Amphibious Forces (Paperback)
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The U.S. Navy's ""Interim"" LSM(R)s in World War II - Rocket Ships of the Pacific Amphibious Forces (Paperback)
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The ""Interim"" LSM(R) or Landing Ship, Medium (Rocket) was a
revolutionary development in rocket warfare in World War II and the
U.S. Navy's first true rocket ship. An entirely new class of
commissioned warship and the forerunners of today's missile-firing
naval combatants, these ships began as improvised conversions of
conventional amphibious landing craft in South Carolina's
Charleston Navy Yard during late 1944. They were rushed to the
Pacific Theatre to support the U.S. Army and Marines with heavy
rocket bombardments that devastated Japanese forces on Okinawa in
1945. Their primary mission was to deliver maximum firepower to
enemy targets ashore. Yet LSM(R)s also repulsed explosive Japanese
speed boats, rescued crippled warships, recovered hundreds of
survivors at sea and were deployed as antisubmarine hunter-killers.
Casualties were staggering: enemy gunfire destroyed one, while
kamikaze attacks sank three, crippled a fourth and grazed two more.
This book provides a comprehensive operational history of the
Navy's 12 original ""Interim"" LSM(R)s.
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