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German landing craft in Battle of Britain movie

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Posted by Mikeym_us on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 4:22 PM

LOL Heck the Soviets even had a couple of flying tanks and I'm not talking about the IL2 Sturmovich.

CrashTestDummy

 Mikeym_us:

The landing craft were assault boats capable of carrying 20 armed soldiers while smaller than Allied Higgens boats they were capable of being road transported to staging areas. While their trucks and other vehicles were loaded onto larger barges for transport to the enemy beach the German Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks would roll onto the enemy beach from under the water.

 

 

 

 

So every Panzer III and IV in the German army was also a uboat?!?  Wow!!Big Smile

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

 

CrashTestDummy

 Mikeym_us:

The landing craft were assault boats capable of carrying 20 armed soldiers while smaller than Allied Higgens boats they were capable of being road transported to staging areas. While their trucks and other vehicles were loaded onto larger barges for transport to the enemy beach the German Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks would roll onto the enemy beach from under the water.

 

 

 

 

So every Panzer III and IV in the German army was also a uboat?!?  Wow!!Big Smile

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 3:21 PM

Not every tank. But they had  approxiamtely 200 Panzer IIIs and Panzer IVs converted into Tauchpanzers for Operation Sea Lion. Enough to get several battalions worth of tanks ashore in the initial assault landings as was done at Normandy 4 years later.

 

 

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Posted by CrashTestDummy on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 2:36 PM

Mikeym_us

The landing craft were assault boats capable of carrying 20 armed soldiers while smaller than Allied Higgens boats they were capable of being road transported to staging areas. While their trucks and other vehicles were loaded onto larger barges for transport to the enemy beach the German Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks would roll onto the enemy beach from under the water.

 

 

 

So every Panzer III and IV in the German army was also a uboat?!?  Wow!!Big Smile

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

 

G. Beaird,

Pearland, Texas

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Posted by CrashTestDummy on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 2:23 PM

Mikeym_us

The landing craft were assault boats capable of carrying 20 armed soldiers while smaller than Allied Higgens boats they were capable of being road transported to staging areas. While their trucks and other vehicles were loaded onto larger barges for transport to the enemy beach the German Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks would roll onto the enemy beach from under the water.

 

 

 

So every Panzer III and IV in the German army was also a uboat?!?  Wow!!Big Smile

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

 

G. Beaird,

Pearland, Texas

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Posted by Tankluver on Monday, March 19, 2012 11:57 PM

thank you!

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Posted by Mikeym_us on Monday, March 19, 2012 1:41 PM

The landing craft were assault boats capable of carrying 20 armed soldiers while smaller than Allied Higgens boats they were capable of being road transported to staging areas. While their trucks and other vehicles were loaded onto larger barges for transport to the enemy beach the German Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks would roll onto the enemy beach from under the water.

Tankluver

Hi all, im rewatching the Battle of Britain and saw the part where the Germans are assembling the invasion force and are bringing the landing craft "barges" in on trucks. My question is, are these landing craft accurate, or are they just hollywood doing its best?

On the workbench: Dragon 1/350 scale Ticonderoga class USS BunkerHill 1/720 scale Italeri USS Harry S. Truman 1/72 scale Encore Yak-6

The 71st Tactical Fighter Squadron the only Squadron to get an Air to Air kill and an Air to Ground kill in the same week with only a F-15   http://photobucket.com/albums/v332/Mikeym_us/

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German landing craft in Battle of Britain movie
Posted by Tankluver on Monday, March 19, 2012 2:05 AM

Hi all, im rewatching the Battle of Britain and saw the part where the Germans are assembling the invasion force and are bringing the landing craft "barges" in on trucks. My question is, are these landing craft accurate, or are they just hollywood doing its best?

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