Landing Craft

Landing Craft are vessels used by navies to drop-off landing forces from sea to shore. Landing Craft were used, in the thousands during the infamous Normandy beach landings (D-Day). Because of the need to run up onto a suitable beach, World War 2 landing craft were flat-bottomed, and many designs had a flat front, often with a lowerable ramp, rather than a normal bow. This caused the troops to feel sea-sick on their way to storm the beaches. This earned the nickname "barf bucket" for LC.

The Higgins boat is a ship that can carry about 40 men. The Landing Craft Gun (LCG) was similar and was intended to give supporting fire to the landing. They are seen in Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 2: Big Red One and Call of Duty: World at War.

The LVT-4 Buffalo/Alligator amphibian is featured in Call of Duty:World at War, used by the Marines Raiders in beach landings on Peleliu. In the water it can achieve speeds of up to 12 km/h and 32 km/h on land.

It is rather obvious that it has thin armour, and, easily shown in Hollywood movies, when attacked from the front with machineguns, can possibly lead to the entire death of the company inside.