USS Casa Grande was a Casa Grande-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy, named in honor of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument near Coolidge, Arizona.
USS Casa Grande at Hampton Roads in 1951
Casa Grande discharging LCU-1491 from her well deck, circa 1957.
The landing craft mechanized is a military landing craft designed for carrying personnel and vehicles from ship to shore without requiring a pier or other shore-based structure. Multiple different mod
U.S. Navy landing craft mechanized (LCM) during logistics exercise in June 2009
Troops and an LCM in August 1943
An LCM during the invasion of Leyte
Two British LCM(2)s after the Dieppe Raid 1942