Identify beach vehicles

[Noel Burgess]

Excellent photo Clive - could I ask where it came from. 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 untill this name was given to the armoured sledge - they never got another name
Noel

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Noel Burgess

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.

[servicepub (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Noel Burgess

Excellent photo Clive - could I ask where it came from.

Found it at Canadian Library & Archives. It is a detail of a larger picture which I will try to upload tomorrow.
Clive

[Ed Storey]

Here is the image.