Amtracs at Normandy

[Gunner]

Hi Mark:

As always, a great response with clear answers to the questions! Thanks!!

I know I will get some howls from various quarters but, as I explained in my earlier post, we will likely mark up the Alligator to represent a 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry Buffalo playing taxi to the SD&G on the Rhine. We will carefully explain in the indoor exhibit in their great little museum, the difference between the Alligator and the Buffalo. The outdoor signage will likely be a simple bilingual label along the lines of "Amphibious Landing Vehicle 'Alligator' 1941-1945"

Did the Northamptons have a space on the Buffalos to indicate the unit being transported? I'm thinking a black square that could be chalked on, as I believe the Kangaroos may have done.

Mike

[Gunner]

Hi Hanno:

Thanks for reminding me of the earlier thread My memory fades occasionally, especially during the winter doldrums!

Looking forward to the big thaw and another dose of Olive Drab rusty trucks!

Mike

[Noel Burgess]

Wim has just posted a link to this site which has some wonderfull film clips of amphibious trials etc in the UK. Most seem to be in 1943 and at least one Aligator appears in 3 of the clips - "Amphibious Trucks & Tanks..." and Various Amphibious ..." on the first page and in another untitled clip on (I think) page three.
Noel

[Mike Timoshyk]

I recently received an accumulation of items from a veterans estate and in it was a photo album with a few pictures and postcards. Here is one of the photos....Buffalos lined up behind what appears to be a dyke....you can see an infantry section in the nearest one....the vet was a Sig.

cheers

Mike Timoshyk