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    Default The Higgins Boat was plywood??

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCVP

    Wow, this is a first for me. It looked so metal in all the video games :X

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    Yeah I always thought it was funny they would ricochet bullets.
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    Wow, I had no idea....

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    Default Re: The Higgins Boat was plywood??

    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.

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    Default Re: The Higgins Boat was plywood??

    IIRC the only metal part of the hull was the bow/ramp.

    PT boats were made out of wood, too.

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    Default Re: The Higgins Boat was plywood??

    Ding!

    Wooden hull with the metal ramp and some forward armor.

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    Default Re: The Higgins Boat was plywood??

    wtf!?

    I had no idea either...

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    ahah, all those shitty models in every wwii game is wrong.
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    this was unexpected!
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