Landing Craft Infantry off Normandy in June 1944. Photo taken from HMCS WASAGA. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM145)
Battleship Fires on Normandy
Landing Craft sail past HMCS MAYFLOWER off the Normandy beachhead while in the distance, a battleship fires a broadside ashore to support the advancing Allied soldiers. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL -ROB055)
Landing Craft -Normandy
HMS LCT 7057 (Landing Craft Tank) heading towards the beaches passing HMCS TRENTONIAN on 7 June 1944. The balloon suspended above her decks was to protect the ship from air attack. The enemy aircraft could not fly close to the ships without being tangled in the heavy wires from the balloons. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen […]
Gold Beach
Landing ships of all types pass HMCS MAYFLOWER off Gold Beach in Normandy on 7 June 1944. HMS AJAX can bee seen in the distance. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL-ROB048)
RN Landing Ship
RN Landing Ship off Normandy in June 1944. Photo taken from HMCS WASAGA. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM143)
HMS LCT(R) 481
Rocket landing craft, HMS LCT(R) 481 off Normandy June 1944. Photo taken from HMCS WASAGA. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM141)
Landing Craft -Normandy
A large landing craft passes HMCS TRENTONIAN off the beachhead of Normandy, on 7 June 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK081) This photo and collection have been gathered from the crew of HMCS TRENTONIAN and have been used by Roger Litwiller to create the book, White Ensign […]
Landing Ship -Normandy
Landing Ship USS LST-393 with her bow doors open, sails past HMCS MAYFLOWER off the Normandy beachhead on 7 June 1944. LST-393 survived the war and is now a Museum Ship in Muskegon, Michigan on Lake Michigan. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL -ROB060)
Landing Craft -Normandy
Royal Navy Landing Craft Tank T7054 sails past MAYFLOWER off the Normandy beachhead in June 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL -ROB058)
USN Landing Ship -Normandy
HMCS MAYFLOWER steams past an American landing ship and her landing craft off the Normandy beachhead. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy -Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL -ROB049)