“Without these amphibians, landing operations on the Pacific islands would have been impossible,” this is how Marine Corps veteran General Holland M. Smith assessed the American LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) amphibious vehicles. Created on the basis of the Alligator rescue tracked transporter, the family of American amphibious amphibians and amphibious tanks distinguished themselves on all fronts of World War II, from the Great Ocean to Europe, and then fought in Korea, Vietnam, and the Suez Canal zone. In this book, based not only on open sources, but also accessible only to specialists in technical and patent documentation, you will find comprehensive information on the history of the creation, production and combat use of these amphibious transporters, which have become a separate class of armored vehicles. To complete the picture, comparative data of similar machines created in Japan and the Third Reich are provided. The collector's edition is illustrated with hundreds of exclusive diagrams, drawings and photographs.