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7.As the speciality of the loading of tank, vehicle and hovercraft on a vehicle deck of the landing craft, the thesis, based upon the FEM calculation, shows the results of the research of current rules from different class societies and the outline of the establishment of a new strength criterion for these load cases.
8.The air bombardment of German fortifications was crucial, even if not as effective as hoped, and the naval attack on German defenses was essential, even if it did not silence most of the German guns, but at H-Hour when the landing craft lowered their ramps the success or failure of the greatest amphibious attack in the history of warfare, the event upon which the success of the Allied effort in World War II depended, all came down to the Bedford Boys and thousands of men like them scrambling in chest high water, weighed down with equipment and ammunition, and the water they splashed into was crimson with their blood and that of their buddies.
