The force at Narvik included five Motor Landing Craft, along with Landing Craft Mechanised and Landing Craft Assault. All five MLCs were lost. An LCM put a French Hotchkiss H39 ashore while the tank fired into enemy opposition. The French tank's firing during the landing made this a multinational combined-arms assault, credited here as the first tank landing into enemy fire.
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An LCM landed a firing French tank at Narvik
At Narvik, an LCM delivered a French Hotchkiss H39 while the tank fired during the landing. The action was an early Allied combined-arms amphibious assault under enemy fire.