Book description
At the outbreak of World War II, Britain had a mere 40 landing craft.
They were a weird assortment of craft coming in all shapes and sizes; they were unnamed and known only by numbers; they were scorned as „tin cans”, „Noah’s arks” and „those bloody kipper boxes”. Yet they were probably the most remarkable fleet that ever put to sea.
By 1944, over 100,000 officers and men were operating a vast fleet of flat-bottomed craft that varied from boats carrying 25 troops to those carrying 250, from ammunition carriers to floating hospitals to tank carriers capable of firing over 1000 rockets at a time. THE WAR OF THE LANDING CRAFT is their remarkable story.
