On 25 September, alone, they sank or destroyed three cargo transports and six landing barges.
"You could drop a landing barge through it."
The landing barge has not been found and is assumed to be scuttled somewhere in the harbor.
On the beaches they practiced with real landing barges.
The crews of three others had the good fortune to be on a landing barge whose ramp jammed.
The maximum capacity of the landing barges was 290 men and these troops could not be reinforced for 45 minutes.
There's a rusting Japanese landing barge just offshore.
The copter dropped lower, spiraling in toward the landing barge.
She then noted three beached Japanese landing barges and shifted her fire to them.
Their information enabled the ship to destroy two camouflaged landing barges, a tug, and an ammunition dump.