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  2. List of Allied warships in the Normandy landings - Wikipedia

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    HNLMS Sumatra (Dutch, decommissioned due to crew shortages and losing her guns to HNLMS Flores and Soemba, used as blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater) The British 9th and 159th minesweeping flotillas and U.S. 7th Minesweeping Squadron provided minesweeping protection.

  3. Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers - Wikipedia

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    This vehicle was designed by Capt D Clegg MBE RE. Twelve vehicles were built by 32 Armoured Engineer Regiment and 21 Engineer Base Workshop of the Royal Engineers under the direction of Lt Col JF Johnson RE based in the German town of Willich, hence its name. [8] [9] Some of these vehicles saw use in the First Gulf War. [10]

  4. LCVP (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The LCP(R) was used in beach landings in North Africa and at Guadalcanal, Salerno and Tarawa. The Landing Craft, Personnel (Ramp) craft later was superseded in production by the LCVP—Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel. [10] During the war, 2,193 LCP(L) and 2,631 LCP(R) were built compared to 23,358 LCVP. [11] By D-Day the LCVP had replaced the ...

  5. Hobart's Funnies - Wikipedia

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    A complete vehicle with trailer is held at Bovington. Mark VII Crocodiles are owned by the Muckleburgh Collection in Norfolk, the Cobbaton Combat Collection in Devon, the D-Day Story, the Wheatcroft Collection, the Kubinka Tank Museum in Russia, and the Museum of the Regiments, Calgary, Alberta. A Mark VIII is at the Royal Australian Armoured ...

  6. 79th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    The division was created as part of the preparations for the Normandy invasion on 6 June 1944, D-Day. Major-General Percy Hobart commanded the division and was in charge of the development of armoured vehicles that were solutions to problems of the amphibious landing on the defended French coastline ; these unusual-looking tanks it developed ...

  7. British logistics in the Normandy campaign - Wikipedia

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    Map of British D-Day assault beaches. The landings on D-Day, 6 June, were successful. Some 2,426 landing ships and landing craft were employed by Vice-Admiral Sir Philip Vian's Eastern Naval Task Force in support of the British and Canadian forces, including 37 landing ships, infantry (LSI), 3 landing ships, dock (LSD), 155 landing craft, infantry (LCI), 130 landing ships, tank (LST) and 487 ...

  8. List of Allied forces in the Normandy campaign - Wikipedia

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    Armed forces during the Battle of Normandy in 1944 D-Day Overlord; Joslen, H. F. (2003) [1960]. Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945. Uckfield, East Sussex: Naval and Military Press. ISBN 978-1-84342-474-1. "The Assault Landings in Normandy : Order of Battle British Second Army" (PDF). Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.

  9. M29 Weasel - Wikipedia

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    The reliability of the vehicle when used in the European summer and during long trips on hard roads was the subject of consternation among Allied troops to whom they were assigned. The commander of the 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion left the note below during their advances towards La Ferté Macé on D-Day +69: