from opposing machine gun fire. Although touchdown was in the early hours of the new day the midnight sun illuminated the battle-field. Once ashore, the 13e DBLE's companies deployed to seize the high ground to the north and south of the town. The MLCs, along with towed ship's boats and other landing craft types, then turned to landing the rest of 13e DBLE and its supporting elements. The small flotilla of MLCs, LCAs and an LCM(1) had added greatly to the Allies' tactical latitude. All the MLCs used at Narvik were lost in operations, fell victim to the sea and weather, or were destroyed and abandoned before the Allied withdrawal. Dunkirk Two motor landing craft participated in Operation Dynamo, evacuating soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force off the beaches to the east of Dunkirk harbour. The MLCs worked alongside an LCM(1) and a number of LCAs. MLC12 was abandoned at Dunkirk on 2 June 1940, and a day later MLC17 met the same fate. See also Inter-Service Training and Development Centre Landing craft assault Landing craft mechanized Landing ship, infantry LCM (1) Notes Notes Citations References Bruce, Colin J Invaders, Chatham Publishing, London, 1999. Buffetaut, Yves D-Day Ships, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1994. The Chief of Combined Operations Combined Operations Staff Notebook, HMSO, 1945. Fergusson, Bernard The Watery Maze; the story of Combined Operations,Holt, New York, 1961. Ladd, JD Assault From the Sea: 1939-1945, Hippocrene Books, Inc., New York, 1976. Ladd, James D. Commandos and Rangers of World War 2 Macdonalds and Jane's, London, 1978. . Ladd, JD Royal Marine Commando, Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., London, 1982. Lavery, Brian Assault Landing Craft, Seaforth Publishing., Barnsley, UK, 2009. Lund, Paul, and Ludlam, Harry War of the Landing Craft, New English Library, London 1976. Maund, LEH Assault From the Sea, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1949. Saunders, Hilary A. St. George Combined Operations: The Official Story of the Commandos. New York: Macmillan, 1943. US Navy ONI 226 Allied Landing Craft and Ships, US Government Printing Office, 1944. External links Photograph of MLC model in Science Museum Amphibious warfare vessels of the Royal Navy Landing craft Military vehicles introduced in the 1920s