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Burnt Out LCT on American Beach

Wrecked landing craft on a beach
Description: Painting, Watercolor on Paper; by Mitchell Jamieson; 1944; Framed Dimensions 31H X 39W
Accession #: 88-193-IE
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This is typical of some of the gutted wrecks along this most tragic of beaches. It had mobile anti-aircraft vehicles aboard and had been so completely ravaged by flame after being hit that its agonies had left it with a look somehow permanent and fixed in rigidity, as though suffering rigor mortis, in a way like a human corpse. A smashed LCIL is in the surf beyond the pontoon barge and an LCVP, or the remains of it, is in left foreground.

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  • World War II 1939-1945
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