New D-Day Shipwrecks Discovered

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🗓️ 6 June 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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D-Day on 6 June 1944 saw the largest amphibious landing in history take place as more than 150,000 allied troops stormed five assault beaches in Normandy, attempting to break through Hitler's Atlantic Wall. ⁠One of the unsung heroes of that operation were the landing craft and their crews. Without whom there could have been no initial landing and that beachhead that created could not have been maintained. Landing Craft Tank were the backbone of the operation to put the Allies back on continental Europe. They brought thousands of tanks, vehicles and tons of supplies ashore on the beaches and allowing the men fighting inland to continue to push forward against stiff German resistance. In this episode of the podcast, Dan speaks with historian Stephen Fisher about his exciting new project which has led to the identification of two Landing Craft Tank that were sunk in Poole Harbour after the war as a breakwater. They discuss the role of these ships, their development, the often perilous conditions they faced in The Channel and how Stephen came to discover the identities of these vessels.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Dance Noes History. This podcast is first broadcast on the 6th of June 2021.
0:06.0	That means it's the anniversary of the latest amphibious assault ever launched in the history of the world.
0:12.0	To mark the anniversary, I've got the very brilliant Stephen Fisher on the podcast. He is a meticulous historian.
0:19.0	The spreadsheet he builds, folks, you don't want to know, you don't want to know.
0:23.0	He played a key part in resurrecting the wreck of Landing Craft Tank 7074, restoring it in minute details,
0:31.0	how it looked on the morning of June the 6th, 1944, and placing it outside the D-Day Museum in South Sea, Port Thomas.
0:38.0	He's incredibly knowledgeable, and he and I have just made a documentary for HistoryHit.tv.
0:43.0	You may have heard me mention this channel. It's the best history channel in the world.
0:47.0	We rampage around the Solan. For those of you listening abroad, the Solan is a beautiful, protected stretch of water on the South Coast of England, protected by the Isle of White.
0:57.0	It's where the Mary Rose sank. It's where HMS Victory set off on her journey towards the Battle of Schraffelga.
1:04.0	It's where Titanic slid out from Southampton on her maiden journey.
1:09.0	It is where hundreds and hundreds of vessels, naval vessels, Landing Craft, supply ships all gathered before the D-Day landings.
1:18.0	It was said you could walk from one side of the Solan to the other without getting your feet wet. There were so many ships there.
1:23.0	And I'm happy to say some of those ships remain to this day that are still the wrecks that ghosts, the remnants of the D-Day landings of those fleets,
1:35.0	of those shore facilities built along the edge of the Solan. They're still here to be seen and in some cases discovered.
1:43.0	In this podcast I'm very proud to say that it's exclusive. My guest, Stephen Fisher, has discovered that a shipwreck, actually slightly west of the Solan in Poo Harbour, is in fact a D-Day veteran.
1:53.0	Keep listening for details of what this ship did on D-Day itself and how Stephen Fisher was able to identify it.
2:01.0	It's such an exciting story. Why don't you listen to this podcast if you go over to historyhit.tv, you can watch the TV show.
2:07.0	I have been overruled, I have been locked out of the office, I've been denied the password to the mainframe, and my team have gone mad.
2:16.0	They're giving out an extraordinary D-Day off on historyhit.tv. If you become a subscriber, today, or tomorrow, D-Day weekend, and use the code D-Day, D-D-A-Y,
2:26.0	you get 50% off your first six months using the service. That means you get historyhit. The world's best history channel for the price of a pint of beer every month until Christmas.
2:39.0	It is very, very alarming. I hope those kids know what they're doing.
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