One photo in Steel Rails to Victory by Ron Ziel shows gondolas being unloaded from a LST They are 4-wheel cars and look to be about 30' long. Another very poor photo shows what look like 40' fishbelly flatcars. A third photo is of a very European looking 40'? box car on arch bar trucks It is identified as a US boxcar but may be a French car used by US forces. Military Railway Service by Don DeNivi and Bob Hall has a photo of 2-dome, 2-truck tankcars in England. They are frameless, the tank is structural. 4-wheel flatcars loaded with Univerical Carriers (a small British tracked vehicle) are shunted by a loco lettered US Army in Cherbourg 4-wheel box cars lettered USA are having their bearings packed in another photo. Sherman tanks are pictured on fishbelly flatcars in Marseilles. It might be the type from the LST in Ziel's although it does not appear to have US markings. This link has a couple pictures of LST unloading 4-wheel gondolas at Normandy http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/160021.htm
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