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Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering
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Tank Museum historian David Fletcher´s reply is useful to copy here:
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Barry Gregory's book AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS (Blandford Press UK/Stirling Publishing USA 1988 isbn 0 7137 1547 2) shows (photo 55) what is almost certainly an LVT II on Utah with 4th Infantry Division. I assume these would have been opperated by Amphibious Tractor Companies of the US Army, rather than the Marine Corps yet their history does not mention this. Presumably they operated as supply carrier, alongside the DUKWs, rather than assault craft on D-Day itself?
The two very rusty LVTs now sitting alongside the Museum on Utah should not be offered as evidence. According to local people these were donated by a commercial operator in France who had finsihed with them.
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