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Old 14-06-09, 00:01
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Originally Posted by Noel Burgess View Post
I hav not seen many photos of the wading D8. The information I have is that 50 of these were available for D Day, they were used by Beach Recovery sections of REME and could wade up to 6ft. Originally they were called Porpoises l
John Marchant had one these some years ago, with hull still in place and a friend of mine also had one once, but the hull had been cut down so that it could be used conventionally.
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