Talk:Landing Vehicle Tracked

message: Just came across: The second vehicle was the Buffalo, again with a body like a tank, but it did have tracks on it with very deep cleats. It had a powerful seven-cylinder Wasp Radial engine. Because of the deep cleats on the tracks it did a lot of damage when driven on the roadway, on rough ground it was brilliant and it could climb very, very steep inclines. In the water, however, it was dreadful - it was very slow, it didn’t ride the waves but just drove through them, and if the sea was even just a bit rough it took on a lot of water. You could not see where you were going most of the time - you just had to rely on your co-driver. When driving off a landing craft the Buffalo was known to dive straight down in the water. More than one soldier lost his life training on this vehicle in just that way. They were, to say the very least, dangerous in the water. 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A2082232 Bukvoed 17:33, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: The city of Buffalo NY has used modified LVTs for many years to do ice breaking in
the shallow creeks surrounding the city.  A mentions can be found below.  The
LVTs were modified with additional plate to protect from the ice as well as new drivetrain components to allow equal forward and reverse speeds.
http://www.ci.buffalo.ny.us/Home/Leadership/City_Departments/Public_Works/Bridges
http://www.projectimpact.ci.buffalo.ny.us/mainInitiatives/iceBreakers/default.asp  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.249.159.254 (talk) 16:00, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Civilian Use

message: Landing Ship, Tanks or LST were used to anphibious landing, with large tanks(and non anphibious) such as the Sherman tank, during World War II.Wikipedia on site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_Ship%2C_Tank  talks about the LST.Agre22 (talk) 03:28, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Anphibious

message: In the fifth hour of The Pacific (miniseries), rather than crossing the beach, amphtracks are shown unloading Marines at the edge of the surf where the troops commence crossing a beach raked by gunfire. Yes, I understand it's just a dramatization, I'm just asking, was it accurate? Wouldn't the point of a tracked armored vehicle be to drive it up across the beach and unload at the treeline where there is some cover? 71.190.72.157 (talk) 15:23, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  tactics shown in the Pacific miniseries 

message: Hi,
Could someone find out (I have looked and can't find it) and include in the statistics box the weight that the LVT can carry as I think this is the primary purpose of the LVT.
ta,
User: johnscotaus  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.69.24.118 (talk) 10:24, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Will find a reference later. Cheers, DerbyCountyinNZ  (Talk Contribs) 19:55, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: And done. Better late than never. DerbyCountyinNZ (Talk Contribs) 03:25, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  inclusion is statistics box 

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message: "...In 1945 Royal Marines Amphibious support unit was created. Its LVT-4 and LVT(A)-4 supported Royal Marines landings in Burma and Malaya...."
This unit never saw action of any kind, it could not have supported any landings of any type in Burma and Malaya. (Croizat, Victor J. Across the Reef: The Amphibious Tracked Vehicle At War. DIANE Publishing 2001. https://books.google.com/books?id=2vRYgvIjZ7cC&pg=PA197&lpg=PA197&dq=1945+Royal+Marines+Amphibious+support+unit&source=bl&ots=MlRfv30wZK&sig=aj-Oas8M-KCplU2cjhZZjZqnojs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin2dSU0cHWAhUIj1QKHbhXCsMQ6AEITDAJ#v=onepage&q=1945%20Royal%20Marines%20Amphibious%20support%20unit&f=false. ; Kirby, MGen Woodburn S. War Against Japan, Volume IV: The REconquest of Burma. The Official History of UK Armed Forces in World War Two. .  Naval and Military Press. 2004 edition. ISBN-10: 1845740637. 
This unsourced comment in the sub-group as identified that is incorrect should be removed, per the verifiable and multiple-sourced correct information that the unit never saw action of any kind in World War Two, per Wikipedia rules. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.142.225.186 (talk) 01:09, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error in South East Asia Heading Sub-Group 

message: https://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news/museum-planned-to-display-unearthed-buffalo-9198210/?fbclid=IwAR2thPjBsyPHU1P_UPYfiUoy5SKl_qEpw0-cfolkCwc3MGLOgTKytzr_1LY Published: 17:02, 06 May 2021  | Updated: 17:11, 06 May 2021
"An amphibious vehicle that was sensationally unearthed last week after being buried for more than 70 years could go on display in Crowland to help commemorate floods that devastated the town.
An ambitious project managed to successfully uncover a Buffalo personnel carrier that had been buried 28-feet below the surface - sparking huge interest among residents as well as national and international media attention.
The Buffalo had been dispatched to the town to help tackle the serious floods of 1947 - but was swept away by waters and sunk into the ground, where it had been ever since."
More in article  
"The vehicles - which were personnel carriers and not tanks - were thought to have been involved in operations to cross the Rhine in the Second World War before finding a new mission after the conflict.
In total, 30 such vehicles were sent to Crowland - and several are still buried and form part of the flood defences."
203.111.4.40 (talk) 12:07, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buffalo uncovered in UK after loss in 1947 floods