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Historically weak on the land but strong at sea, England (and, from 1707, Britain) made good use of amphibious forces in a series of wars against both Spain and France. Francis Drake’s raid on Spanish possession in the Caribbean between 1585 and 1586 was a prelude to a series of successful amphibious operations that included the capture of

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research into the mechanics of various landing craft, he viewed the coral as a technical problem with a technical solution. To him, that solution was variously known as an amphibious tractor, an alligator, an amtrac, or by its most common name, a Landing Vehicle Tracked, or LVT for short. Conceived by Donald Roebling—grandson of the builder of the