"CB" Fireflies

[Mark W. Tonner]

Originally posted by John Tapsell
I'd dispute the idea that the tanks are sitting on the tank deck. They've far too high when compared to the hull sides. If they were on the tanks deck, the sides should extend as least as far as the turret sides and these clearly finish somewhere around track/sponson level.

John;

To give you an idea of how low the sides of an LCT actually were:

-top photo - an M10 loaded on an LCT for D-Day

- bottom photo - all of PA 132653 - with the 2x 17pdrs of the FGH circled in red (left), and if you look in the bottom right hand corner, you'll see an AVRE. Compare the AVRE to the LCT's side.

Cheers