This picture is from the book Kilroy Was There and it shows LCT's unloading on Omaha beach on 8 June 1944. In the center background there is a solitary LVT.

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Hi Folks!

Check out the 2&1/2 over to the left that is facing down hill and to the left some. Then look up the hill at the line of vehicles. One of those looks a bit like the side and rear of a second LVT.

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Sgt, Scouts Out!

There are at least 4 DUKW's in that group of vehicles.

Dan

Dan Fong: Great picture! Once again It's clear that nothing is certain concerning Normandy?

Roy: It's hard to see, but it could be a second LVT.

Anyone got any idea of the exact location? Could it be the same spot as the well known picture with the Americans walking up the hill? Vierville?

Alex

Do you guys put all your reference pics under a magnifying glass or what? Don't know how you did it but great find

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Well, I reckon I see 3 ! But no DUKWs !

Andrew

if anyone has the book "Spearheading D-Day" the author has a small section on LVT's. As a matter o ffact he has a picture of the front end of an LVT (LVT 1 or 2) Why the allies didn't use them is beyond me. It was recommended by the Navy adviser from the Pacific to use them, but Nooooooooo..oh well, great eyes by the way!!

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.