Sir Peter Luff, Chair of HLF, said: “The importance of the Normandy landings is very well understood, but as the years pass it becomes harder for people to appreciate just how much technological innovation they demanded. LCT 7074 is believed to be one of only 10 survivors from this extraordinary fleet. The largest amphibious operation in history, it involved 7,000 ships and craft disgorging 160,000 soldiers on the beaches of Normandy. Over 800 LCTs with the capacity to carry 10 tanks or equivalent armoured vehicles were involved in ‘Operation Neptune’, the navel element of ‘Overlord’. Due to reopen in 2018 following a complete refurbishment, the D-Day Museum offers a much more in-depth narrative on the events that took place in ‘Operation Overlord’ on 6 June 1944 and looks specifically at the Royal Navy and how its crews coped on that day. The D-Day Museum is an affiliate of The National Museum of the Royal Navy which is managing the project. This has been made possible thanks to an investment of nearly £5m from The National Lottery and has been planned to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the landings in two years’ time. For the first time ever an original Landing Craft Tank (LCT) will be on display at the D-Day Museum in Portsmouth.
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