I am an avid consumer of the Ghost Army’s work, and openly admire it. Because you encourage dialogue, I decided to share a little piece of research I have conducted for the last two decades: the design and development of landing craft and ships used during WW2 (and ever since).
I returned to this WW2 special episode, and I am sorry to say, it has several errors, historical, biographical and even conceptual, This is a consequence of the vacuum of information about this topic that prevails.
I understand the need for brevity in producing your videos, as well as keeping your research to reasonable extents. Again, available sources are very scarce, incomplete and even misinformed (the only book published solely on the LCVP is quite misleading at best, and downright fictitious in part. I had the misfortune of contributing a number of my own images and drawings to the book, which the author had the gall to misrepresent.
I have had innumerable obstacles in my research, and have endlessly struggled to better complete it, so I hesitate to publish my results; above all I want to elucidate this subject - it is quite complex. Just the scale of the overal effort spent on these vessels is overlooked and underrated.
I believe a summary would make for a fine episode of ‘War on the home front’. Part of the reason for the apparent lack of public interest in the subject is due to the lack of clear detailed available information. I wonder why German military technology is the complete opposite.
I would like to offer a brief alternate narrative. Calling the LCVP the vehicle that won the war is equivalent to naming the B-17 ‘the bomber that destroyed Germany’. War is never that simple.
Anyone interested is welcome to respond.
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