Preserved LCA?

[Alex van de Wetering]

Alex, see the pic below (source: hultongetty.com Image #56209263).

Yes, those were the days. I have seen it several times and I still think it is a shame that we have lost this true D-day relic. Of course it is quite an undertaking for a museum to keep an LCA in good shape with the salty sea next door. But I still don't understand why they scrapped it and than made a bad replica of an LCA nose section for indoor use in the museum. I hope it ended up at a collector and it will pop up one day.....LCA were largely made from wood, so not that interesting for a scrapper..(this is waht you would call wishful thinking).
Besides the 17pounder also diappeared at the Arromanches museum.

Maybe one day an LCA will pop up and someone will restore it for preservation, just like the LCVP's that have popped up over the past few years.

Alex