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Landing Craft Infantry

July 19, 2023 by Roger Litwiller

Landing Craft Infantry

Landing Craft Infantry off Normandy in June 1944. Photo taken from HMCS WASAGA. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM145)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: Bangor class, DDay, HMCS, HMCS WASAGA, Invasion, Landing Craft, Naval History, Navy, Normandy, Operation Neptune, Operation OVERLORD, RCN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, ships, WWII

Battleship Fires on Normandy

November 10, 2022 by Roger Litwiller

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)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: Battleship, corvette, DDay, History, HMCS, HMCS MAYFLOWER, Invasion, Landing Craft, Naval History, Navy, Normandy, Operation Neptune, Operation OVERLORD, RCN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, ships, WWII

Landing Craft -Normandy

October 31, 2022 by Roger Litwiller

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 […]

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: corvette, DDay, History, HMCS, HMCS TRENTONIAN, Invasion, Landing Craft, Naval History, Navy, Normandy, Operation Neptune, Operation OVERLORD, RCN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, ships, WWII

Gold Beach

October 27, 2022 by Roger Litwiller

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)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: corvette, DDay, Gold Beach, HMCS, HMCS WASAGA, HMS AJAX, Invasion, Landing Craft, Landing Ship, Naval History, Navy, Normandy, Operation Neptune, Operation OVERLORD, RCN, RN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, ships, WWII

RN Landing Ship

August 14, 2022 by Roger Litwiller

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)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: Bangor class, DDay, HMCS, HMCS WASAGA, HMS, Invasion, Landing Craft, Naval History, Navy, Normandy, Operation Neptune, Operation OVERLORD, RCN, RN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, ships, WWII

HMS LCT(R) 481

May 31, 2022 by Roger Litwiller

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)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: DDay, History, HMCS, HMCS WASAGA, HMS LCT(R) 481, Invasion, Landing Craft, Naval History, Navy, Normandy, Operation Neptune, Operation OVERLORD, RCN, RN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, ships, WWII

Landing Craft -Normandy

September 23, 2021 by Roger Litwiller

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 […]

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: corvette, DDay, History, HMCS, HMCS TRENTONIAN, Invasion, Landing Craft, Naval History, Navy, Normandy, Operation Neptune, Operation OVERLORD, RCN, Royal Canadian Navy, ships, White Ensign Flying, WWII

Landing Ship -Normandy

September 4, 2021 by Roger Litwiller

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)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: corvette, DDay, History, HMCS MAYFLOWER, Landing Craft, Landing Ship, Naval History, Navy, Normandy, Operation Neptune, Operation OVERLORD, RCN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, ships, United States Navy, USN, USS LST-393, WWII

Landing Craft -Normandy

August 25, 2021 by Roger Litwiller

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)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: corvette, DDay, HMCS, HMCS MAYFLOWER, Invasion, Landing Craft, Landing Ship, Naval History, Navy, Operation Neptune, Operation OVERLORD, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, ships

USN Landing Ship -Normandy

August 9, 2021 by Roger Litwiller

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)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: DDay, History, Invasion, Landing Craft, Landing Ship, Naval History, Normandy, Operation Neptune, Operation OVERLORD, Roger Litwiller, ships, United States Navy, USN, WWII

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