World War Two Landing Craft

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Episode 6 of 6

Duration: 30 minutes

Looking more like a skip than a boat, the LCVP, or Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, won't win any prizes for beauty. Yet the craft did more to win World War Two than any other piece of machinery. There were once over 20,000 of these little boats, but only a handful remain. Sailor and writer Tom Cunliffe puts one of them through its paces and finds out how the boat was developed for one momentous day in 1944.

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Credits

Presenter
Tom Cunliffe
Director
Lawrence Walford
Producer
Lawrence Walford
Executive Producer
Jonah Weston

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