Going over the side from the USS Bayfield APA 33. This wasnt as easy and going ashore by helicopter. This method of transporting Marines is really bad when someone get seasick. Marines that invaded the islands of the Pacific during WWII often said that after being sealed below deck in the tropical sun, you were glad to get on these boats for the fresh air. I am sure that time had erased the fear they experience when the front of the boat opened and they knew that they were in some Japanese soldier's field of fire.
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