Normandy 70th Anniversary – 2014

Arromanches, Bayeux, Port-en-Bessin and Tilly-sur-Seulles
One of the vehicles we took to Normandy in 2014 was our own Sherman BARV, which was built especially for the Normandy landings. A modified Sherman tank, the British turned around 60 into the Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle variant, with the specific purpose of recovering vehicles that came in on the landing craft and either got stuck or broke down. The BARV towed the vehicles to safety then with her wooden “bumper” was able to push the landing craft back out to sea if required. Our BARV was put back in the water for the first time in 75 years – and loved it! She even had to make a rescue of two WW2 Dodge Weapons carriers that got stranded in the sea trying to emulate our BARV!