Public domain World War II pictures

and it doesn't look like a Le Enfield either

There were no landings of this nature in the pacific theatre. There were some planned but the atomic bomb cancelled them. Its not a turtle helmet. All the the gear looks clean and new, matbe its the 78th Battleaxe division landing with the americans in ...

There were no landings of this nature in the pacific theatre. There were some planned but the atomic bomb cancelled them. Its not a turtle helmet. All the the gear looks clean and new, matbe its the 78th Battleaxe division landing with the americans in north africa.

might be a training landing in N. Africa for the OPs in Sicily/Italy....actually after looking at the photo..
the hull numbers on the landing craft give the info up pretty easily.
KA18-3 is the #3 landing craft from the USS Cepheus...

might be a training landing in N. Africa for the OPs in Sicily/Italy....actually after looking at the photo..
the hull numbers on the landing craft give the info up pretty easily.
KA18-3 is the #3 landing craft from the USS Cepheus (AKA-18).the following exerp from the ship's DANFS entry would explain why British troops would be coming off here LC in desert shorts....

[quote]Cepheus (AKA-18) was launched 23 October 1943 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J., under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Miss J. Sharpe; transferred to the Navy 15 December 1943; and commissioned the next day, Captain R. B. Hall, USCG, in command.

Cepheus put to sea from Staten Island 27 February 1944, bound in convoy for Liverpool. Although several submarine contacts were reported in the convoy, effective work by the escorts prevented any attacks, and the convoy arrived safely 9 March, with its cargo destined for the Normandy invasion. Joining her assigned division in Scottish waters, Cepheus sailed for Oran, where she arrived 6 April to report to the Eighth Amphibious Force. After training exercises along the Algerian coast, she loaded vehicles and troops for the passage to Naples, where she unloaded 19 June to 23 June. After training at Palermo and Salerno, she returned to Naples to offload combat vehicles, then cleared for Castellammar near Palermo to combat load for the invasion of Southern France.

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that would explain the uniforms and the mixed helmet issue.....

And those aren't Mk3 'turtle' helmets! Where do these nonfactual descriptions arise from?

Could also be from the Pacific Theatre

I second that

No British Troops landed in Normandy wearing shorts......could be Med or North Africa.