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"General Eisenhower wrote that the three tools most important for winning World War II were the Jeep, the Dakota [aircraft] and the Landing Craft. Not much has been written about the last until journalist Tom Carter s ""Beachhead Normandy"", in which he traces his father s Landing Craft Tank (LCT) to the chaos of Omaha Beach and beyond. Using navy records, diaries, interviews and more, Carter restores some balance to giving credit to the men and seacraft that stormed the beaches not once but over and over, bringing in the equipment and supplies to sustain the D-Day effort. Exquisitely researched, Carter s book is a significant contribution to World War II literature. Brooke C. Stoddard, author of ""World in the Balance: The Perilous Months of June October 1940"" Too few books have been written about the small boys in naval warfare the submarine chasers, minesweepers, and landing craft. Tom Carter has helped to correct that situation, giving us an excellent account of the development of the LCT and, specifically, the role of the LCT 614, on which his father served, in the landings at Omaha Beach in Normandy. Norman Polmar, author of ""Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet"""

General Eisenhower wrote that the three tools most important for winning World War II were the Jeep, the Dakota [aircraft] and the Landing Craft. Not much has been written about the last until journalist Tom Carter s Beachhead Normandy , in which he traces his father s Landing Craft Tank (LCT) to the chaos of Omaha Beach and beyond. Using navy records, diaries, interviews and more, Carter restores some balance to giving credit to the men and seacraft that stormed the beaches not once but over and over, bringing in the equipment and supplies to sustain the D-Day effort. Exquisitely researched, Carter s book is a significant contribution to World War II literature.

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Tom Carter grew up in a navy family with a father who had landed at Normandy. After high school, Carter enlisted in the navy and served three years aboard the USS Semmes (DDG 18), making deployments to the Persian Gulf in 1976 and with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean in 1977. After his service, Carter worked for a series of newspapers as a reporter, news editor, night editor, and copy editor. He later earned a PhD in communications from the University of Tennessee and now teaches journalism and medieval British literature at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.

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