This week on History Happy Hour: On June 6, 1944, 4126 specially designed landing craft carried 132,000 Allied troops to the D-Day Beaches.  In this episode, we take a deep dive into why so many different types of landing craft were, how they were built, and how well they did in the hour of crisis.

Chris and Rick welcome Andrew Whitmarsh, author of  D-Day Landing Craft.

 

Andrew Whitmarsh has been the curator of the D-Day Story Museum in Portsmouth for more than twenty years.  That museum is home to the last surviving intact ‘Landing Craft, Tank’ that took part in the Normandy Landings: LCT 7074 He is also the author of "Portsmouth at War" and "D-Day in Photographs".  He frequently writes and lectures about D-Day.