Amtracs at Normandy

[Gunner]

Hi Mark:

Thanks for the info about the Scheldt- I have persistent rumours that the SD&H may have been hauled ashore in Normandy in them. I haven't taken the time to read their official history yet but will get around to it at some point!

The reason for the interest is that we (S&P Museum) are sending an Alligator to Cornwall for use as a gate guard. The fact that Alligators were not used will be pointed out in the signage with an explanation of the differences between an Alligator and a Buffalo but they want something closer to what they crossed the Rhine in then the current M113 1/2 Linx that has no connection to their history at all.

Do you have any further info regarding Buffalos and the SD&G? Photos?

As always, thanks for the careful research you do... we all benefit from it!

Mike

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Gunner

Do you have any further info regarding Buffalos and the SD&G? Photos?

Gunner,

No Canadian units were hauled ashore in Normandy in LVT´s. They did not come into Commonwealth use until well after D-Day - see Mark´s comment.

Re. SD&G, re-read Alligators and Buffaloes.

- Hanno

[Gerry McGinty]

Thanks for the replies chaps.
Here are the links which I picked on on the TMP website - hope they work!:-

http://img120.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_525lo.jpg
http://img244.imageshack.us/my.php?image=80010zb2.jpg
http://www.le-roosevelt.com/utah_1945_5.htm

Best regards
Gerry

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Gerry McGinty

http://img120.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_525lo.jpg

This pic shows an LVT-1 in the lower left corner. That makes it doubtful it is a June 1944 NWE theatre photo. When and where was this taken?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Gerry McGinty

http://img244.imageshack.us/my.php?image=80010zb2.jpg

The French text mentions these two pictures are the only known ones showing LVT´s in Normandy, underpinning the hypotheses they were used there.

One of the other pictures in that link show the pair of LVT´s at the Utah Beach Museum. I recall seeing this picture in a 1950´s(?) picture postcard booklet.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

The French text mentions these two pictures are the only known ones showing LVT´s in Normandy, underpinning the hypotheses they were used there.

Here is the footage these photos were lifted from: https://www.criticalpast.com/video/6...nderway-at-sea

Allied Landing craft and liberty ship underway at sea during the invasion of Normandy.
Location: Normandy France
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: NO SOUND
Clip: 65675075869
The Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. Landing vehicle tracked (LVT) underway on Normandy beach.

65675075869_000115_3.jpg 65675075869_000276_3.jpg

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Picture taken from HM LCT647 / LTN2030 of the 28LCT flotilla while transporting USAAF 9th AF Personnel & Vehicles to Omaha Beach in Normandy - June 7, 1944

LIFE Magazine Archives - Frank Scherschel Photographer WWP-PD

IMG_0563.jpeg

Found here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ej...ibextid=wwXIfr

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Gerry McGinty

http://www.le-roosevelt.com/utah_1945_5.htm

According to the site, this picture is one of a series taken in 1945. I hope they dated the picture accurately.