Landing Craft [Tanks] and how to break them: A misusers guide.
Landing Craft [Tanks] and how to break them: A misusers guide. Photo Malindine (Lt) War Office official photographer - H 19057 IWM caption : THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1939-45; A Crusad er I tank emerges from a tank landing craft (TLC 124) during tests of a portable concrete roadway, in this case laid on the beach, 26 April 1942. The need for a purposeful way to put men and material on a hostile shore had been on the minds of the Royal Navy since it commissioned its first Motor Landing Craft in 1926. A specific vessel which could deliver tanks was launched in November 1940. While the image, for people of a certain age, would be of a single Airfix Sherman tank coming out of the ship, the first LCTs [mark 1] could carry three tanks. The Mark 2 could carry seven and later marks had a larger capacity [1]. In truth, however, the designation T for Tank would be more accurately rendered T for Things. Of all the tasks that the ...