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Orficial U.S. Navy. Photo. AMERICAN LANDING CRAFT SPED INVASION TO SICILY More than 2000 ships joined in the greatest armada of all times to speed the United Nations invasion of Sicily and many of them were American landing craft of various types. Beachheads were established by fighting forces from the radically designed and highly-specialized fighting ships, many of which pushed their way across the Atlantic under their own power. These pictures of a convoy of LST (landing ship- tank) ships, largést of the amphibious operations craft, were made by a U.S. Navy photographer aboard one of the ships North Africa bound. ore LST'S BEAR LIGHTER CRAFT "PICK-A-PACK" ON CONVOY Bound for North Africa from the United States several LST's can be seen in a convoy somewhere in the Atlantic. Smaller landing craft can be seen on their supports on board the LST's. Because of its light draft the LST is a difficult target for U-boat torpedoes. 12