The Alligator

In its day the LVT 1 was welcomed by fighting troops as an excellent vehicle

I have learned that there are at least two surviving LVT 1s in United States Marine Corps Museums, one at Camp Pendleton in California another at Quantico in Virginia. There is another in Canada, near Ottawa in Canada and quite a few in varying states of decay at Guadalcanal and other Pacific locations. There are none in Britain as far as I can see. The story of how they were discovered and adopted for Marine Corps service has been told before, many times. Donald Roebling, the grandson of Col Washington A Roebling and Emily Warren Roebling, who completed the design of the Brooklyn Bridge, designed a range of prototypes resulting in a vehicle for rescue work in the Florida swamps.

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