VEHICLE IMPERVIOUS
TO FIVE FEET OF WATER
LANDINGS IN TUNISIA I It is not generally known that lin the Allied landings in Tunisia and Sicily certain motor vehicles were driven .straight off landing craft, whilst still some distance from shore, into several feet of water. Although these vehicles were not strictly speaking, amphibious, inasmuch xis they did not float., they ploughed through the surf and up the beaches under their own power. This meant that a considerable bulk of the invading army's transport reached dry land ready for action in a fraction of the time .normally taken by disembarkation. This landing procedure was made possible by prior experimentation and training at Army vehicle maintenance schools in Great Britain where, in wide, deep water-filled gravel pits, technique was developed, rendering engines and vehicles ijnpervious to five feet of water. How this was done is a military seeret. and details will not be. published, but it can be disclosed that the methois used are both ingenious and simple.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 40, 14 January 1944, Page 5
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166VEHICLE IMPERVIOUS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 40, 14 January 1944, Page 5
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