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Summary
| Description | A U.S. Navy Landing Craft Utility (LCU) landing craft in the well dock of the dock landing ship USS Belle Grove (LSD-2) during "Operation Piranha", in 1965. The amphibious ships landed a Battalion Landing Team (BLT) of the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines on the Batangan Peninsula, Vietnam. Note the M48 tanks tanks aboard the LCU. |
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| Source | U.S. Navy photo [1] from the USS Belle Grove (LSD-2) 1965 cruise book available at Navysite.de |
| Author | USN |
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