363. Landing Craft Tank

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

History, Education, Society & Culture

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On the 6th of June 1944, LCT 7074 delivered nine tanks onto the beach in Normandy. Al Murray and James Holland head to Portsmouth to explore the UK’s last remaining D-Day Landing Craft Tank. Historian Stephen Fisher joins them to explain the provenance of this landing craft and its significance to Operation Overlord. A Goalhanger Films production Produced by Harry Lineker Exec Producer Tony Pastor Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod Website: www.wehavewayspod.com Email: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've asked me hearties, I used the main brace for yet again.
0:14.2	James Holland and I, we have ways of making you talk.
0:17.4	I, nautical, aren't we James?
0:19.8	Yeah, it's nauticalier day.
0:21.3	Nauticalier day.
0:22.1	Nautical for nautical.
0:23.4	Nice for nautical.
0:24.4	And James, I've got a question for you.
0:27.2	What's got a crocodile and a grizzly?
0:32.7	And about 46 metres long.
0:34.4	Yeah.
0:35.6	Well, I think it is a landing croftank, isn't it?
0:37.8	Yeah.
0:38.3	707-4.
0:39.3	707-4.
0:40.2	And I've got to say, you know, here we are standing up in the bridge.
0:43.1	Are we in the bridge, Steve?
0:43.9	We're on the bridge.
0:44.4	We're on the bridge.
0:45.7	Stephen Fisher's joint is, by the way, we should, yeah.
0:48.6	We should.
0:49.4	I'll try to the podcast.
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