I know they stowed the LCVPs on deck of ship hoisted them down into water and then the troops would clambor down cargo nets into them. If an LCVP was brining in a load of wounded how would they get them on board. Part 2 With DuKWs was this the same or did they go on some other type of ship and drive into the water. Been thinking about doing a small dio of loading strechers of wounded men aboard a DuKW and wondered what they did at the other end to get them off safely

Photos in a book covering the Normandy landings shows a hoist attached to the stretcher lifting the patient onto the ship. The LCVP and our DUKW would tie up the side of the ship in question and be lifted into the ship.

Did they lift the wounded on stretchers or the entire DuKW onto the ship?

They lifted the stretchers out of the smaller vessels up onto the ships.

I've seen footage of LCVP's being hoisted out of the water and the wounded being unloaded at deck level. Also, in a pinch, a DUKW could possibly just drive onto an LST if it was really necessary to unload some wounded more quickly.

I kind of figured that. Personally if I was on a stretcher I sure wouldn't want to be hoisted onto a ship with a crrane. I imagine in the Pacific where they used Hospital ships they had a special crane to do this.