"Normandy Landing Craft" Topic
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| Bunkermeister | 08 Apr 2013 11:40 p.m. PST |
What was the most common small landing craft used at Normandy by US forces, the LCVP or the LCA? Thanks. Mike Bunkermeister Creek
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| shaun from s and s models | 09 Apr 2013 1:44 a.m. PST |
the lcvp was used by the americans whilst the lca was a gb design, crewed by royal navy crew that carried us troops, i do not think the us actualy used the lca itself.
but i stand to be corrected. |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 09 Apr 2013 2:56 a.m. PST |
I think they did..there is the famous colour photo, and here it is..
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| shaun from s and s models | 09 Apr 2013 4:40 a.m. PST |
as i stated, an lca crewed by royal navy carrying us troops.
looks like a pre d-day excersize off devon. |
| Sundance | 09 Apr 2013 5:21 a.m. PST |
Yes, Cardinal, that's a RN crew not a USN crew, but they are carrying US soldiers. |
| dglennjr | 09 Apr 2013 6:20 a.m. PST |
The US Rangers rode in some LCA's. I use both for my D-Day skirmish landings. link David G. |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 09 Apr 2013 6:55 a.m. PST |
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| Lone Eagle | 09 Apr 2013 8:46 a.m. PST |
For my Dog Green sector game that I used to run, we used the book Beyond the Beachhead for reference. They had a table that showed the wave, what unit was in it, what landing craft they were delivered in and what time they were to hit the beach. For the first 3 or 4 waves they are either all or majority LCA's. The waves after that are a majority of LCVP and LCM. |
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