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GARRELS, Robert Ernest. Manual of Instructions of operation the ballasting control system: Tank Landing Craft, LSD 1-8 (Formerly APM 1-8); Marked "Restricted" on cover. Manual of instructions.; Ballasting: valve operating procedure & [carbon copy of TLS from Robert Tate] to Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland Branch, San Francisco & Oakland CA; New York: Moore Dry Dock Co., Gibbs & Cox, Inc., United States Navy, Office of the Supervisor of Shipbuilding, June 7; Oct. 12, 1943; [ca. 1945]. Three vols. quarto, 28 pages in mylar sleeves. This archive of exceedingly scarce original reports and souvenir album for the invaluable Dock Landing Ships (LSD) in WWII, used heavily through the War from their first incarnation designated as Artillery Transport, Mechanized craft 1-8 for the U.S. Navy. These were designed to transport loaded landing craft, tanks, amphibious armored vehicles and troops into amphibious beahces. Two of the reports with extensive diagrams show the indispensable ballast system designed to flood their well decks, lower the stern gate to the sea, and disembark craft and vehicles for assaults on hostile enemy beaches. These proved additionally useful as offshore repair docks, featuring shipfitter's shop, machine shop, and carpentry shop able to repair ships and marine craft at the assault site. The photographs show the ships under construction loading tanks and armored vehicles in North Africa; the landings at Normandy & Rendova in the Pacific Campaign; the Bougainville and Iwo Jima landings; Cape Sansapor in Dutch Guinea, and many others. Flooding the ballast sytems for landing, and then leaving the landing beaches as a detailed process as shown by these original report documents for the Moore Dry Dock Co. who built these first eight - including the Ashland, Belle Grove, Carter Hall, Epping Forest, Gunston Hall, Lindenwald, Oak Hill, and White Marsh. Garrels (1909-99) first enlisted in the US Navy in June, 1944, and continued to serve as a career officer, supervising the Moore Dry Dock Co. for the Navy during WWII and later rising to Captain during the Korean War.