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- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?0:55Sea Lion's planning effort and the September postponementChapter
- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?18:13Landing-craft production and the limits of air superiorityNotable Point
- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?26:56River barges facing Channel weatherNotable Point
- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?32:36Useful landing boats available in tiny numbersNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:09:18Royal Navy beach teams directing landing craft under fireNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:17:59Landing craft crews' repeated journeys under fireNotable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:35:01Landing craft and covert acquisition of Cold War vehiclesNotable Point
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:38:34Why better ship-to-shore plans do not create an early D-DayQ&A
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…30:00Interwar work prepared the landing craft used in World War IINotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:24:30Norway's landing-force transport problem and tank weight growthNotable Point
- Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off1:14:08The amphibious logistics behind the Falklands advanceNotable Point
- Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off1:20:44Outdated charts and Ewen Southby-Tailyour's local knowledgeNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…55:10Why the Royal Navy kept developing landing craft between the warsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust3:05:29Landing-craft conversions and the shortage of fast tankersNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust5:37:12Why a Marine division would not solve Normandy's landing problemQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress3:08:08Accounts of collecting Cold War tanks by landing craftNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida4:58:09Why Falklands landing craft could not be treated like trucksQ&A
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?10:26Tulagi's high ammunition cost for limited resultsNotable Point
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:11:57The operational difference between landing craft and landing shipsQ&A
- Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?52:04Overlord answered coastal defence with engineering and massed firepowerChapter
- Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?55:08Why Overlord used land-based aircraft instead of carriersNotable Point
- Genesis of the Stomach Churners: Motor Landing Craft & Landing Craft Mechanised...4:10Naval architects' papers preserve X-lighter specifications and testimonyNotable Point
- Genesis of the Stomach Churners: Motor Landing Craft & Landing Craft Mechanised...5:15X-lighters and the first step toward powered landing craftChapter
- Genesis of the Stomach Churners: Motor Landing Craft & Landing Craft Mechanised...13:53Britain kept amphibious plans without building an operational fleetNotable Point
- Genesis of the Stomach Churners: Motor Landing Craft & Landing Craft Mechanised...16:14Exercises exposed the limits of paper landing-craft designsNotable Point
- Genesis of the Stomach Churners: Motor Landing Craft & Landing Craft Mechanised...18:21The 1926 Motor Landing Craft tested waterjet propulsionChapter
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?1:26:19Dieppe's shingle beach obstructed both tanks and landing craftQ&A
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- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:40:49French EDAR versus traditional landing craftQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:27Landing craft before the Second World WarNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...51:28The World War II design that could transform World War IQ&A
- Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!50:32Reading modern river-force structuresChapter
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)32:40The Serbian flotilla's unusually mixed fleetChapter
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)1:27:11Why navigable rivers demand crossing craft and gunfireNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)1:29:47Shore-to-shore movement and the boundary of amphibious warfareNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20243:17:39Why opposed landings survive by avoiding the defender's strongest pointQ&A
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- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 741:39Why an LHD can do more than a hospital shipNotable Point
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- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier58:08Fast oilers become amphibious-warfare shipsNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!7:08Exercises, not Abyssinia, shaped the support-ship requirementNotable Point
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:14:25Breaking an invasion by destroying its liftQ&A
- The OG Junglies: 845 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, Audio Hostem25:33The Falklands amphibious force needs ships, craft, and helicoptersChapter
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered1:41:06Useful wartime roles for a side-dumping bargeQ&A
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 323:18How a cargo liner became an amphibious assault shipChapter
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 338:29Why routine troop delivery was a dangerous core missionNotable Point
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 345:23The danger of putting an assault force in one hullNotable Point
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 354:21Why cargo liners made effective amphibious conversionsNotable Point
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids1:50:17Aviation cannot replace the amphibious dockChapter
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:37:08How more LVT-2s could change the Normandy campaignQ&A
- HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War5:10Why cross-Channel ferries suited amphibious conversionChapter
- HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War8:04Heavy davits solved only half the LCM problemNotable Point
- HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War12:11From 1,800 passengers to 372 assault troopsChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 21:13:03Interwar amphibious experimentationNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 21:33:14Interwar roots of wartime naval innovationChapter
- Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 32:22Churchill and the contested origins of the LSTChapter
- Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 36:38Amphibious conversions consume scarce fast fleet tankersNotable Point
- Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 330:44Exercise bias hid the scale of wartime amphibious logisticsNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:53:39Invasion of England 1940 as an introduction to Sea LionChapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:56:40Landing craft, freeboard, and carrying tanks ashoreChapter
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs55:00Okinawa exposed a shortage of motor gunboatsChapter
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs57:31Why the loss of small craft matters to historiansNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre1:04:33Okinawa revealed the need for small-craft gunboatsChapter
- The Landship Story37:01Royal Marines tanks as an organic landing-force capabilityNotable Point
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 955:17The inquiry's judgment on Captain MaundNotable Point
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett44:19Canals connected inland landing-craft yards to the seaNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'44:23Early engines and Royal Marine landing craftQ&A
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Late30:36Hovercraft in Second World War amphibious operationsNotable Point
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat47:30From First World War tank barges to the LSTQ&A
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches1:24:17Could a capital ship land an armoured car?Q&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov4:36:06HMS Antelope: bomb damage, magazine fires, and protectionQ&A
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)3:23:37Q&A: dedicated shipping is a recurring requirementQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat4:24:50Early commandos, scarce landing craft, and political connectionsNotable Point
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books3:22:12How an LPD well deck supports fast landingsQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.31:10Why India retains smaller landing craftChapter
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.38:28Helicopters move troops; landing craft move the weightChapter
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:27:52Karel Doorman's dock works, but manoeuvring is tightQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:33:25LCAC speed does not erase vulnerabilityQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:34:57Armour is not an afterthought in amphibious warfareNotable Point
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:38:37Connector speed sets the real offshore distanceChapter
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:43:24Falklands losses distinguish craft, ships, and redundancyQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:55:27Different connectors need different beachesQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:59:54Beaching the transport risks the whole lift planQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.2:06:52The missions survive even when LCI and LSM labels fadeQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.2:22:43Landing craft can fire ashore, but recoil fights the hullQ&A
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- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:34:17Kumano Maru combined landing craft with a take-off-only deckNotable Point
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live3:08:11How a Pearl Harbor landing would reach shoreQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron3:58:44Surviving an over-the-horizon amphibious approachQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword42:09Why the Landing Craft Infantry spread beyond D-DayQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword2:52:21How well landing-craft rockets worked on D-DayQ&A
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History17:57LCM-3 tank lighters carry armour onto Pacific beachesNotable Point
- Four Random Books 30 - Courage4:37Ewen Southby-Tailyour from Falklands landing craft to HelmandChapter
- Four Random Books 30 - Courage12:09Air attack reshapes San Carlos logisticsNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P4/5 Summary... was Lend Lease worth it?21:45Landing craft as Lend-Lease's valuable warshipsNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease40:26Madagascar put Norway's amphibious lessons to workNotable Point
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)2:04:09Operation Husky brings waterproofed tanks ashoreNotable Point
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...40:21What the Royal Navy received beyond ships and aircraftQ&A
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- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P1/7 Sir Patrick Duffy37:08Minehunting and amphibious lift reveal neglected support fleetsChapter
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment3:00:44Why an Arctic amphibious ship still needs a well deckQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan1:12:52Minehunting gaps, estuaries, and amphibious liftNotable Point
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects3:40:40Combining air and sea lift in a commando strike forceQ&A
- Four Random Books 24: Power, Money & Strategy in 1930s13:32Comparative innovation and Britain's landing craftChapter
- Bruships 34: Random History2:04:40How the Landing Craft Assault balanced beaching, protection, and troop movementChapter
- Bruships 34: Random History2:12:10Could D-Day be classified as a giant river crossing?Q&A
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- Bruships 29: Best Seller History1:30:59Landing craft and tankers as the limits on Allied options in 1943Notable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:24:38Utah Beach and command flexibility after a misplaced landingChapter
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:32:03Landing-craft crews and repeated assault runsNotable Point
- Paddle Ships at War3:03:33Paddle craft moved troops without becoming landing craftQ&A
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- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection1:32:35What Norway needed from amphibious forcesQ&A
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 4 of 5: After 1940 - Quislings & Commandos11:35Operation Claymore's naval raid forceChapter
- An Introduction to Operation Menace part 2 of 23:42An amphibious force short of landing craftNotable Point
- Four Random Books 4: Warship Design12:13A technical history of British warship designChapter
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- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:03:12Amphibious ships do not create an armyQ&A
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- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:31:27Royal Marines small-craft supportQ&A
- 50th Live Special: Thank You33:58Operation Ironclad and the Madagascar problemNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: Intro - What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?12:46Harbour craft as a base for amphibious capabilityNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:49:06Fast landing craft and the ship-to-shore trade-offQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A36:44Reginald Henderson's interest in amphibious mobilityQ&A
- An Introduction to Operation Ironclad: May 1942 Invasion of Madagascar14:36Landing ships built for invasion and occupationChapter
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war1:01:53Carrying CB90 escorts in an amphibious well deckQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:25:40Ground-effect landing craft work but cost too muchQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:17:09Why wartime landing craft needed many servicesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:23:13Hovercraft and landing craft solve different beach problemsQ&A
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iv)15:48Landing ship engineering and forward repairChapter
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iv)24:42Mass production made landing craft families highly variableNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:35:46Battleships, landing craft, and interwar amphibious experimentsNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:52:17Why wartime production reused interwar designsNotable Point
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- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered9:40Riskable did not mean disposableQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered13:38Russian Black Sea landings and GallipoliQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered17:21Recruiting crews for the landing-craft flotillasQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered20:15Weather limits and commando modificationsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered25:02The central flaws of wartime landing craftQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered32:54How landing-craft flotillas were organizedQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered56:09What early Swedish landing craft revealQ&A
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iii)29:18LST decks became launch platforms for smaller landing craftNotable Point
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iii)30:18Even an expert designer could misidentify a landing shipNotable Point
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(ii)6:12Train ferries become stern-chute landing shipsChapter
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(ii)10:19Landing ship gantries provide long-range landing-craft liftChapter
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(ii)27:23Stern-ramp boat launching has a long historyNotable Point
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)4:27Why interwar amphibious plans lacked landing shipsChapter
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)6:21Why small exercises concealed the shipping gapNotable Point
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)9:16Glen-class landing-craft capacity and evolving davitsChapter
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)16:01Medium LSI speed, capacity, and launch gearChapter
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)18:21Medium LSIs make Operation Claymore possibleChapter
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)20:48Small LSIs and the tradeoffs of converted ferriesNotable Point
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)24:01Hand-hoisting LSIs reveal wartime urgencyChapter
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 13:03Reading landing-craft history through its engineersNotable Point
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- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 16:35From ships' boats to Gallipoli's X-lightersChapter
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 112:38The myth of neglected interwar amphibious warfareChapter
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 113:00Why were London barges suitable for X-lighters?Q&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 124:50From the Motor Landing Craft to the LCMChapter
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:05:23Why did landing craft keep getting larger?Q&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:24:50Why wartime landing-craft lists are never exhaustiveQ&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:25:57How separate were American and British landing-craft designs?Q&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:34:00Did British landing craft carry flamethrowers?Q&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:34:57Why did Allied landing-craft bows differ?Q&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:35:41What would an ideal World War II assault ship look like?Q&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:38:48Why Europe and the Pacific needed different craftQ&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:46:22Did the Allies consider landing craft on the Rhine?Q&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:47:16What distinguishes an LCT from an LCM?Q&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:48:06What theatre conditions shape landing-craft design?Q&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:51:26Did World War II have a Mexeflote equivalent?Q&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:51:46How were beach obstacles cleared?Q&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:36:45Landing platform dock ideas predated the Second World WarNotable Point