D-Day Landings, Utah Beach.
D-Day Landings, Utah Beach.
A Landing Craft Propeller. Recovered from Utah Beach, June 8th 1976. A bronze propeller for a LCVP or Higgins Boat, stamped "Gaines 12 x 12LH, 1943". Diameter 270 mm, depth 55 mm. Some wear to blades.
Provenance: Tony Flitter, US Veteran of D-Day, his typed note pasted onto one blade "Propeller found on Beach June 8th 1976. Dug by myself. Utah Beach. 32 Anniversary of D-Day. Loaned by Mr Tony Flitter"; Private Collection of the Former Assistant Secretary of the Battle of Britain Association; The War Museum, MA.
A fine landing craft propeller, the memento dug out of the sands of Utah Beach by a visiting veteran in 1976.
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D-Day Landings, Utah Beach.
A Landing Craft Propeller. Recovered from Utah Beach, June 8th 1976. A bronze propeller for a LCVP or Higgins Boat, stamped "Gaines 12 x 12LH, 1943". Diameter 270 mm, depth 55 mm. Some wear to blades.
Provenance: Tony Flitter, US Veteran of D-Day, his typed note pasted onto one blade "Propeller found on Beach June 8th 1976. Dug by myself. Utah Beach. 32 Anniversary of D-Day. Loaned by Mr Tony Flitter"; Private Collection of the Former Assistant Secretary of the Battle of Britain Association; The War Museum, MA.
A fine landing craft propeller, the memento dug out of the sands of Utah Beach by a visiting veteran in 1976.
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