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silentsteps
Jun 19th, 2008, 01:15 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCVP

Wow, this is a first for me. It looked so metal in all the video games :X
Cheeto
Jun 19th, 2008, 01:48 PM
Yeah I always thought it was funny they would ricochet bullets.
Rob
Jun 19th, 2008, 10:26 PM
Wow, I had no idea....
MeleeMe?
Jun 20th, 2008, 01:52 AM
I believe they were just a wooden hull with armor on the sides. I might be wrong though but im pretty sure that only the bottom of the boat would be wood with no other protection.
Penguin
Jun 20th, 2008, 04:05 AM
IIRC the only metal part of the hull was the bow/ramp.

PT boats were made out of wood, too.
Latzen
Jun 27th, 2008, 04:26 AM
Ding!

Wooden hull with the metal ramp and some forward armor.
Shade-of-Grey
Jul 1st, 2008, 04:40 AM
wtf!?

I had no idea either...
TylerDurden
Jul 2nd, 2008, 12:04 AM
ahah, all those shitty models in every wwii game is wrong.
SwedeIndeed
Jul 3rd, 2008, 09:57 AM
:orly:

this was unexpected!