D-Day 80: Landing Craft - Special lecture

Name: D-Day 80: Landing Craft - Special lecture
Start: 2024-06-26T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-06-26T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Portsdown Hill Road, PO17 6AN Fareham, United Kingdom

Schedule

Wed Jun 26 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Portsdown Hill Road, PO17 6AN Fareham, United Kingdom | Fareham, EN

Come and find out about the enormous contribution of landing craft and their crews to the 1944 Normandy campaign.
Andrew Whitmarsh, Curator of the D-Day Story in Portsmouth, will give the talk at Fort Nelson on 26 June at 7pm.
Andrew's lecture is about his new book, D-Day Landing Craft, which tells the story of the operational use of landing craft and landing ships across all five D-Day beaches.
Most of the 133,000 Allied troops who landed on the beaches on D-Day came ashore from landing craft.
It includes the experiences of the British, American and Canadian crews, and of the troops they carried.
It also examines the many different types of landing craft used in the operation, and how they were built in both the UK and North America.
Tickets cost £7.50 and include parking and light refreshments.