{"product_id":"landing-ship-tank-lst-1942-2002","title":"Landing Ship, Tank (LST) 1942–2002","description":"\u003cp\u003eLanding Ship, Tank (LST) 1942–2002 traces the design, development and operational life of the LST—the amphibious workhorse that could beach itself, unload tanks and vehicles directly onto shore, and retract under fire. Placing the type in its wartime and Cold War contexts, the book explains how LSTs underpinned Allied amphibious operations from 1943–45 (including the D‑Day landings) and follows their evolution and global employment through to the last U.S. example, USS Frederick (LST‑1184), decommissioned in 2002, showing how the class repeatedly exceeded its original design expectations. The narrative combines technical description with operational vignettes to illuminate the logistics and naval engineering that made large-scale beach assaults possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Gordon L. Rottman and published by Osprey Publishing (Bloomsbury USA imprint), this concise illustrated monograph (ISBN 9781841769233) is geared to historians, modelers and naval enthusiasts. It features New Vanguard–standard color plates, black‑and‑white photographs, deck and internal layout drawings and maps of amphibious operations, and offers a compact technical and service‑record survey of LST classes, variants and postwar use—making it both a practical reference and a visually rich introduction to an essential ship type.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WW2 Bunker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44298906173542,"sku":"9781841769233","price":11.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/4926\/4998\/files\/8QJEfcTQdz-yLePbPGWOfWQO1XoaucdzhHt_DHg45x0.jpg?v=1767232358","url":"https:\/\/ww2bunker.com\/products\/landing-ship-tank-lst-1942-2002","provider":"WW2 Bunker","version":"1.0","type":"link"}