Mhm see them all over Seward and homer

in my town a lot of people arrive at the ball park and football stadium by boat...would seem perfect for depositing a bunch of drunks onshore...

Thornycroft

Higgins Boat 22000+ built LCA 2000 built

It doesn't serm to be working very well at the moment. Ask Nigel F (he who must not be named).

That is actually the state slogan of Tasmania during "these difficult times". Isolating themselves from the Australian continent has kept them disease free and allowed them to lead an almost normal life.

Thank you. I looked at this film, I've tried to find the classic film of British troops first D-Day landing which shows the differing nature of the two landing craft. Alas, I can't find what I want. This is a very poor programme, did this "Expert" on vessels know even less than I do?

I think it’s a matter of what he could get his hands on to film with. I’d imagine the British ones are a bit rarer with there limited and recently ravaged industry during that period.

Maybe because only 2000 of the British LCA's were made while 23,000 of the American designed LCP's were produced. The LCP's had a bigger impact on Britain's future.

@Allen Casey I think this is a good explanation, also the British used LCPs as well there is a British lcp driver in part 2

@@CarburetorThompson perfect delivery system for the little Bren gun carrier....

because the idea of the death trap came mostly from the US landing at Omaha, where everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.

the MG-42 was a nasty piece of work when pre-sighted...you were a sitting duck when that ramp dropped...

bunkers are very hard targets to destroy, they absolutely used air and sea bombardment to target the installations, but there's only so much you can do against a building specially designed to endure bombardment

Bunkers are designed to withstand such a thing, they learned their lesson from the 1910s.

Oh they did. Youd be amazed by how many ships were behind the infantry on D-Day. Seven battleships were along the coast, bombarding the fortifications, along with 25 cruisers(5 heavy and 20 light). They also had the support of 139 destroyers, and two monitors.

they would later add armor and double the guns...those guys were pretty exposed...check out the movie "Away All Boats"...free on here......

Is there a link?

@@General_Eisenhower1945 id have to dick around on marketplace to find it I was just searching 'WW2' in Illinois

poor taste, former paratrooper.

Sheer weight of numbers?

@@spockspock probably :/ but oldsoldiers who I've met said with their extra protection they were a Godsend, and I've heard similar things said by GI's that used them, it just seems sad that when we had our own version battle designed and hardened fom Norway down, on the other hand the american boat was very good just unlike ours it was armourd, pity we dont extol it :)

peter forden i have no doubt any added protection would have been appreciated greatly by those who were placed in harm’s way. I find modern analogies in quantity over quality, US Marines and British Army planning on doing without MBTs due to the technological threats now arrayed to defeat big armor.

@@spockspock despite the fact that tank hs a fear factor that outweighs even that of a screaming tommy charging at you with a bayonet belly high..duing the British policing of Iraq after the last war a 6 man patrol ran out of ammo and did what theyd been taught...the Bayonet, its effectiveness resulted in 40 dead insurgents and 6 live Tommies, those same 40 would never have dared take on a challenger, but hey! what are soldiers lives to a politician? perhaps the gutted iraqispiled on their doorsteps would make a better argument, talk is cheap...weapons and peace are not.

What annoys me is the show is called "the boats that built Britain" but it's about an American boat and ignores the actual British LCA.

True but it wasn't a case of preference it was more a case of being more familiar with the LCA due to joint training and exercises with British Commandos in Scotland and Ireland. It doesn't end there either as the Rangers LCA's were also mainly crewed by RN personnel.

@@stephenchappell7512 I think the armour plating on the LCA was a big factor

@@melvillesperryn9268 That is true however you have to balance that with the fact that the LCA was much more awkward to disembark from. It was the Americans due to experience gained though countless operations in the Pacific who led the way in the theatre of amphibious operations

Rangers were trained by British commandos....partial to their equipment and tactics...

think you're ignoring the LST...Churchill was reported to have said "Apparently victory depends on something called an LST"...that was a British design prompted by Dunkirk...but the LCVP did enable you to get in and out fast...

@@frankpienkosky5688 My father was an Able Seaman on HMS Danae on D Day. He manned LST 3019. His sister told me in old age that it carried tanks?

....how many horses can it carry?.....

Agree , about 2000 Landing Craft Assault (LCA) were built in the UK, a better subject for boats of Britain.

Some have argued that the survival of Britain did indeed depend on a successful invasion. I’m a complete amateur though - any experts out there??

@@fernandopratesi5378 No expert but I'm sure the Battle of Britain secured our sovereignty against the nazi war machine.

Jet Driver and those British built concrete piers and breakwaters!!!!!!

@@fernandopratesi5378 well they were getting bombed and rocketed right up to near the end of the war...so putting an army ashore was the only way to put an end to that..

or fill it full of babes...imagine that hitting the beach!...kinda' funny when the Marines hit the beach at Da Nang, only to be greeted by locals handing out flowers...

And the world was generally better for it.

Ah yes, and of course no one ever crossed the nasty North Sea to invade the isles, eh? :)

Just like the brits to talk about an American boat like they did anything but put them together and use them a couple times. It doesn't even use a British engine. Detroit is an American company. "OUR BRITISH HANDS ASSEMBLED THESE FROM THE PARTS WE GOT FROM BIG DADDY AMERICA"

The brits scream loud about being able to defend an island's home territory from a logistic and range limited Luftwaffe.

@@Chilly_Billy British colonies generally tended to fare better when it came time for self-rule...

B the end of Battle of Britain as the German soldiers turn in the life jackets 😂

It's that the video is really when British troops landed at their beach heads they used British made LCAs not the American one.

Why!!, the thumbnail for one, second it aint even thornycroft, enough said...

Only to have to fight that here and now. We dodged a bullet, but gotta stay viligent.

@@trythinking6676 any country that's an island better damn well have a navy....

True; LT Victor H. Kurlak USN took the photograph of a Dai-Hatsu 14 M type landing craft at Shanghai in 1937 while observing Japanese Landing Observations (the reference book is "Across the Reef" by Victor J. Croizat; ISBN 0-7137-1894-3). Higgins was shown the photograph in April 1941 by MAG Linsert (USMC?) Secretary of the Equipment Board. So the original idea or concept of the bow ramp was not Mr. Higgins', but his willingness to except it as an innovation, do the work to re-engineer his design, and come back in short order with a new improved version 8 or 7 months before Pearl Harbour is kind of one of those small facts lost or burried in the history of WWII. Especially when you know it was the Japanese landing craft with a front bow ramp that was the inspriation or answer to getting men on the beach. This one solution would be applied to the larger craft to follow.

Marines didn't have these at Guadalcanal...but the Army did..."The Thin Red Line"....