If anyone would like to see a small excerpt of the film it was taken from, click the link below. It's in Windows Media Player format.

LVT Video

Did anyone else read the hull number on the LST at the beginning of the clip as 124? It looks like it is either that or 324 to me. If it was the LST 124 the footage would have been shot in the Pacific...

Link:

http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/l11/lst-124.htm

Hope this helps...

Shaun

Shaun, the ship's number is 324

The number is definitely 324. No doubt in my mind. What strikes me is the "dazzle" camo (I say the term dazzle as a general reference point and not as the specific camo scheme of the same name). I'm not sure of how many Normandy (or even overall) LSTs carried camo like that. Something for me to ask my grandfather, as he was a radioman aboard LST-1048 (later Morgan County) in the Pacific.

EDIT - (as stated from the Naval Historical Center website) LST-324 was laid down on 10 August 1942 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard; launched on 5 November 1942; and sponsored by Mrs. James A. Boyle.
On 23 January 1943, LST-324 was transferred to the United Kingdom and returned to United States Navy custody on 1 June 1946. The tank landing ship was struck from the Navy list on 3 July 1946 and sold to Bosey, Philippines, on 13 February 1948.
There is a picture on the page showing a zoomed out full length shot of the 324 with the quote saying among other parts state the 324 is heading for the Anzio beachhead, January 1944. So if it was in the Anzio landings it probably wasn't sent to the pacific. Maybe this was taken in the Southern France invasions? I don't know.

Thanks Ken. I have the show Tivo'd at the house but haven't had a chance to watch it yet. I guess the plot thickens...

Thanks again,
Shaun

That makes more sense: mediterranean, color shots, Aligator.....
Yep, I think you're right there.

I have no idea when or where this was taken, but if it is in Normandy, you can probably narrow down the earliest possible date by looking at the weather. What was the first bright and sunny day in Normandy after June 6?

Now we seem to be getting somewhere... Look at this sequence of pics and we now begin to see evidence for the original hypothesis....









In all of these pics, the weather is good, high, but open clouds....So, no reason it couldn't be Normandy, In fact now I am 150% convinced...Jim