DD393 ‘US Navy LCM (3) Landing Craft Mechanised #48’

            These particular LCM (3)s are the largest 1:30 scale Landing Craft models ever produced by King & Country.  Each waterline ship model measures 20” (51cm) in length and can easily accommodate either one of K&C’s own M4 Sheman tanks or a full load of 40-50 U.S. Infantry figures.
            Each of our two LCM (3)s also include 3 x Crew figures (1 x Cox’n inside the cockpit plus 2x U.S. Navy sailors manning the .50 cal. Browning machine guns).
      In addition: Each of this first batch of 200 x LCM (3)s also comes with a complimentary KnC D.Day Sherman Tank.
      Production Details:  These waterline model LCM (3)s are manufactured using high quality, fiber glass hulls and superstructure with all-metal, hand-painted U.S. Navy figures plus machine guns and gun shields.
            The cockpit and rear platform section is also removeable to reveal the hand-operated mechanism that lowers and raises the craft’s front loading ramp as required.
            Two different hull numbers are available, #48 and #76 (please specify which you prefer when ordering).
            Each individual model comes expertly packed in its own handsome full colour presentation box.  Just 100 of each of this initial batch of numbered hulls are available.

“A VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF TRANSPORT”    

From moving around battlefields on land to sailing across vast seas and oceans and transporting soldiers and vehicles onto often hostile shores was the main purpose of a host of Allied amphibious craft that took the fight to the enemy and made victory possible.
One of the most essential types of Allied landing craft was the LCM (3), the Landing Craft Mechanised which was specifically designed to carry vehicles and personnel from ship to shore without the requirement of a pier or other land-based docking facilities.
Originally designed and manufactured by Higgins Industries of New Orleans its principal task was to land armoured vehicles, such as the 30 ton M4 Sherman tank, onto enemy beaches in the European and Pacific theatres of war.
Between 1942 and 1945 more than 8,600 LCM (3)s were built at no less than nine different shipyards on both coasts of the United States.
Alas no exact figures are available as to how many of these LCM (3)s were lost in action or indeed how few survived WW2.A small number were however operated on some of the inland rivers and waterways of South Vietnam during U.S. involvement in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Today a mere handful remain to be seen in a few museums around the world.
These two 1:30 scale models are K&C’s unique reminder of a great landing craft.

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