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Object description
Expanded wordprocessed copy (18pp) of an article published in MARINER'S MIRROR in 2002 covering his appointment as a junior RNVR officer in command of LCT441, their working up and training off the west coast of Scotland and bad weather trials (August - December 1943), their exercises off the Isle of Wight with some amphibious Canadian Sherman DD tanks (January - May 1944), their deployment to Juno beach on D-Day when one of their tanks was lost in rough weather as it was launched and the LCT was mined and had to be run aground, the eventual temporary repair of LCT441, her passage across the English Channel in a floating dry dock and refit at Falmouth (June - late 1944), her voyage via the Suez Canal to India under tow by merchant ships (February - (?) April 1945) and preparations for service in the projected invasion of Malaya (Operation ZIPPER, summer 1945), their deployment to Malaya and Singapore following Japan's surrender and the decommissioning of LCT441 after she broke down (September - late 1945).
Content description
Expanded wordprocessed copy (18pp) of an article published in MARINER'S MIRROR in 2002 covering his appointment as a junior RNVR officer in command of LCT441, their working up and training off the west coast of Scotland and bad weather trials (August - December 1943), their exercises off the Isle of Wight with some amphibious Canadian Sherman DD tanks (January - May 1944), their deployment to Juno beach on D-Day when one of their tanks was lost in rough weather as it was launched and the LCT was mined and had to be run aground, the eventual temporary repair of LCT441, her passage across the English Channel in a floating dry dock and refit at Falmouth (June - late 1944), her voyage via the Suez Canal to India under tow by merchant ships (February - (?) April 1945) and preparations for service in the projected invasion of Malaya (Operation ZIPPER, summer 1945), their deployment to Malaya and Singapore following Japan's surrender and the decommissioning of LCT441 after she broke down (September - late 1945).
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2004-05