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Meanwhile, The National Museum of the Royal Navy led the restoration of LCT 7074, now under the guardianship of the D-Day Museum as the last surviving landing craft tank from D-Day. Article ...

On the morning of D-Day, June 6, 1944 ... almost every hundred yards, a landing craft, discharging vehicles and men. It was noisy, very noisy, shells screaming over the top of us, gunfire going ...