D Day Landing Craft Markings

Thanks so much Michel
Robert Colquhoun

 

Hi Michel,
I dont suppose you can show me a screen grab with both the above LCT and the five LCTs circled by Arty. This would give me some perspective regarding their positions?
Regards,
Bob Colquhoun

 

Hello Michel.
Ask we have discussed previously my Grandfather served on LCI(L) 164 though until I read your post from 2015 thought this vessel in the photo was 181. Can I ask which vessel you now think features in this still image taken from footage on the 6th.

Of note, on the left hand side of the reverse it is written LCI(L) 181.

Kind regards and thanks and please excuse my ignorance in this matter, it's not an area I'm familiar with.

Gunner

 

As per my posts #107 and #146 above, this is without any doubt LCI(L) 164:

 

Thank you Michel. I appreciate you confirming that for me. It means the clip which matches the still image from D-Day is my Grandfathers vessel.

 

Could that be the jib of a crane sticking out, right hand side rear of craft??

 

I don't think so. It is highly unlikely that a crane jib would have been positioned this way, especially when the craft is about to beach and discharge its vehicles.
The apparent protrusion is more likely the coincidence between some fitting on the LCT side (the Float-A-Net for example) and light reflecting from the surface of the sea just beside it.

Michel

 

Itsj ust that I'm still on the hunt for the LCT that dropped 9x3 ton trucks and a crane onto Sword Beack at 1400hrs on D-Day,

 

I believe I now (just short of eight years later ) finally have the hull numbers for all 26 craft dried out on this famous oblique aerial photo shot around 1630 hrs D Day. The respective positions of eight craft (those with hull number in italics) in the outer line are not fully certain yet, but the ones shown are the most likely. I still need a formal confirmation that LCT 1067 also dried out, although existing evidence makes it almost certain.



Michel

 

Nice Michel! Now do the same for the rest of the beach photos...(runs for the door, covering his ass with both hands).

 

Same pic as above, with LTINs added (when known):



Michel