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American Tanks on D-Day’s Beaches

Always wondered why the LVTs that where used in the Pacific starting in mid-1941, were not more widely used in place of the Higgins boats and Sherman DD, which were mostly ineffective, than just ferrying supplies on D-Day.

While used early at Guadalcanal the LVTs were mainly used in amphibious assaults' in late 1943 at Tarawa, with the full range of LVT models in the Marshalls landings in Feb. 1944 well before the D-Day landings.

But the D-Day landings were a US Army show & something developed by the USMC which was better suited for landings were largely ignored.

My .02
 
Talyn said:
Always wondered why the LVTs that where used in the Pacific starting in mid-1941, were not more widely used in place of the Higgins boats and Sherman DD, which were mostly ineffective, than just ferrying supplies on D-Day.

While used early at Guadalcanal the LVTs were mainly used in amphibious assaults' in late 1943 at Tarawa, with the full range of LVT models in the Marshalls landings in Feb. 1944 well before the D-Day landings.

But the D-Day landings were a US Army show & something developed by the USMC which was better suited for landings were largely ignored.

My .02
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Utah Beach: DD tanks 80 percent success rate. Omaha Beach: despite what the movies show, over 60 percent success rate. Amtracs and Amtanks one inch frontal armor at most. Shermans 3.7 inches frontal armor taking into account 57 degree angle. Amtanks: 75mm low velocity howitzer. Sherman: 75 mm medium velocity all purpose gun.
 
Cedric said:
Utah Beach: DD tanks 80 percent success rate. Omaha Beach: despite what the movies show, over 60 percent success rate. Amtracs and Amtanks one inch frontal armor at most. Shermans 3.7 inches frontal armor taking into account 57 degree angle. Amtanks: 75mm low velocity howitzer. Sherman: 75 mm medium velocity all purpose gun.
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I just figured that the LVT would have been a better choice to ferry troops under cover right to the beach/first sea wall vs. the Higgins boats that ran aground and the troops had to wade quite a distance under fire then to the beach & try to make it to the first sea wall.
 
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Even the Amtanks with their low velocity guns would have been adequate to deal with pill boxes.

The light armor would have been adequate against the MG fire which was the majority of the fire that were covering the beaches.
 
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