This photo is the first of a series taken from the landing craft LCF 14 during World War II, in 1943 and 1944. These photographs come from my father, Malcolm Stuart Maxwell Carnson’s photo album. He never talked about it, but I always assumed that he had taken these (his daughters always have cameras at the ready, so I thought it was all genetic!). This one looks down onto the deck of LCF 14.
I recently talked to one of his shipmates, who thought that they were taken by a Gerry de Witt Gray (although I am not sure of the spelling), who apparently scoured Naples for paper and developing supplies.
This is the deck after they got to the Mediterranean. The suntan on the guy on the right makes it obvious why they needed the shade. You can see the smaller barrels of the Oerlikon guns to port and starboard, and also the 2 larger single pompoms forward.
