Hmlct(cb) 2041

[Tony Chapman]

I was speaking to Norman Vingoe the other day who was second in command of the above 'Concrete Buster' the MK5 LCT(CB) 2041 during the D-Day landings in Normandy....where she was due with the combined craft of the 102nd Mk5 LCT Flotilla delivering 26th Assault Squadron Royal Engineers and the 105th LCT(A)(HE) Flotilla delivering the Centaurs and Sherman tanks of the 2nd Royal Marine Armoured Support Group, the whole assigned at Courseulles sur Mer in support of the 7th Infantry Brigade of the 3rd Canadian Division.
Norman told me that he has long since regretted never discovering the name of the Canadian Army officer in command of the single Sherman tank mounted on 2041's firing platform......likely a forlorn hope I know but I wondered if anyone within this websites readership might know the answer......?


Tony Chapman
Official Archivist/Historian
LST and Landing Craft Association (Royal Navy)