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The Higgins Boat Project
www.higginsboat.org
Andrew Higgins was the inventor of the most famous Second World War landing craft design as seen in Saving Private Ryan. Eisenhower proclaimed him as the man who won the war.
LST and Landing Craft Association
www.lstlandingcraftassoc.org/main.html
A members' site that has some excellent photographs of LST (Landing Ship, Tank) landing craft used in the Second World War. A booklist on the subject may also be downloaded.
LST – Landing Ship
www.insidelst.com
General landing craft information with description of the designs and interior spaces within the LSTs built during the Second World War.
Know Your Boat
www.boat-ed.com/sc/course/p1-2_hulltype.htm
Looks at different hull types and their advantages and disadvantages.
'Labour' to 'Lutine'
www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/4754.html
The Royal Navy's great online dictionary of matelots' slang, including landing craft.
Cavitation
www.fact-index.com/c/ca/cavitation.html
Find out here about cavitation which can occur with both propeller and paddle propulsion and can also cause problems in pump technology.
Development of the Propeller
www.mh-aerotools.de/airfoils/prophist.htm
Offers a timeline of the development of the propeller from 400BC.
Propeller Propulsion
http://wright.nasa.gov/airplane/propeller.html
The Glenn Research Center at NASA provides diagrams and information on the physics involved in propeller propulsion.
Word IQ – Paddle Steamer
www.wordiq.com/definition/Paddle_wheel
Offers a definition of paddle steamers and gives an historical overview.
Basic Physics by Karl Kuhn (John Wiley and Sons, 1996)
A complicated subject made simple, this excellent resource takes all the basic concepts of an introductory physics course and brings them vividly to life.
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Landing Craft from 1926 by John Atkinson (Books International Militaria, 2001)
Offers a detailed catalogue of every landing craft ever constructed in Britain or built in Allied countries and deployed in Britain, with production and deployment statistics and war losses.
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The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan (Wordsworth Editions, 1999)
Acclaimed account of 6 June 1944 takes the reader from the planning of history's greatest ever amphibious landing up to its implementation. In interviews with survivors, the author captures the horror and the glory of D-Day.
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The Longest Day (1962), Director/Producer Darryl F Zanuck
An epic of the Second World War, based on Cornelius Ryan's book, that culminates with D-Day. With a cast of thousands – virtually all of them famous – it reveals the preparations for the invasion of Normandy from the point of view of the Allies, the French resistance and the Germans.
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Saving Private Ryan (1998), Directed by Steven Spielberg
The first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan is a visual assault, acclaimed as one of cinema's most accurate realisations of warfare as US soldiers land their Higgins Boats and attack Omaha Beach. Spielberg crafts a shocking and moving illustration of the Second World War.
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