Here it is at last fully completed.
This has been a very long term project but I'm glad to have been able to finalize it.
As a reminder, this kit has all been scratchbuilt except for the tracks that were bought ready to be installed in 3D in a shop on Shapeways as is the US Navy LCT crew standing on the deck waiting for going back to his ship.
This LVT is my what I assume to be the closest rendition of one of the two used on D-Day on Omaha Beach while serving within the 459th Amphibious Truck Co.
Thank you to all of you who followed and commented this built from the start and hello to new comers, you're welcome.
Please note that later today, I'll be adding much more photos from of the building steps from the very begining to the achieved model.
So feel free to check http://manu-military.e-monsite.com/
Here are (taken out from my bookshelf) some useful litterature about LVT and some other information I've been using:
MATERIELS, EQUIPMENTS, UNIFORMS
• measurments on real ammo crates
• TM 9-1900, Ammunition General, War Department, July 1942
• TM 9-1900, Ammunition General, War Department, June 1945
• TM 9-1900, Ammunition General, War Department, June 1956
• TM 9-1901, Artillery Ammunition, War Department, June 1944
• Quartermaster Supply Catalog, George Petersen reprint, 1984:
o QM sec.1, enlisted men’s clothing and equipment, 1943
o QM 3-1, List of items for troop issue, enlisted men’s clothing and equipment, 1946
o QM 3-3, List of items for issue to posts, camps and stations, 1944
o QM 3-4, List for items for issue to troops, miscellaneous organizational equipment, 1945
o QM 6, chests, kits, outfits and sets, 1944
• Yank's 1944, L. Linet / G. Gillot, Editions du Perron, 1984
• Doughboy to GI, US Army clothing and equipments 1900-1945, Kenneth Lewis, Norman D. Landing Publishing, 1993
• G.I. U.S. E.T.O., Guide du Collectionneur, Tome 1, Henri Paul Enjames, Histoire & Collections, 2004
• G.I. U.S. E.T.O., Guide du Collectionneur, Tome 2, Henri Paul Enjames, Histoire & Collections, 2008
• Militaria magazine, n°1 to n°423, Histoire & Collections, 1984-2020
• Weapon Mounts for Secondary Armament, G.O. Noville, G.O. Noville & Associates, 1957
• SNL A-55, section 28, Cal .30 or .50 MG mount, M35 and M35C, War Department, 1950
PREPARATION FOR OVERSEAS MOVEMENT MARKINGS
• Unit Serial Numbers from the First U.S. Army Build-Up Priority Tables, List A, D-Day +1 through D+14, Lois S. Montbertrand / Ben C. Major, WW2 US Medical Research Center, 2011
LANDING VEHICLE TRACKED (all types)
• Internet
o loop viewing of the period color film up until my eyes burnt
• Technical manuals
o TM 9-1784, LVT-1 (amphibian tractor T33) power train, track chains, hull & clutch, War Department, 1943 (original, état neuf)
o TM 9-775 Landing Vehicle Tracked MKI and II, War Department, 1944
o TM 9-776, Landing Vehicle Tracked MKVI, War Department, 1944
o SNL G-209, Service parts catalog for Vehicle Landing Tracked MKIV (LVT4), 1944
o SNL G-214, List of all parts, Vehicle Landing Tracked MKI and IV, LVT1 and 4, 1945
• Books
o Stuart, A History of the American Light Tank, R.P. Hunnicutt, Presidio Press, 1992
o LVT-4 Walkaround photo details cd, Chris Toadman Hughes, 2004
o US Amtracs and Amphibious at War 1941-45, Steven J. Zaloga, Concord, 2000
o LVT-4, David Doyle, Schiffer Publishing, 2020
o Amtracs in action, Jim Mesko, Squadron Signal Publications, 1993
o LVT-4 Amtrac in Action, David Doyle, Squadron Signal Publications, 2014
o Allied-Axis 8, LVT’s at the Front, Patrick Stansell, Ampersand Publishing, 2002
o History of the Development of the LVT through WWII, Major A. Dunlop Bailey, MilSpecManuals, 1986
• Modelism
o Model technical manual LVT-4, David E. Harper, Hard Corps Publishing, 2006
o LVT's Amtank, LVT A1, LVT A4, LVT A5, David E. Harper, Letterman Publications, 2003
o LVT A1, A4 & A5 model technical manual, David E. Harper, Letterman Publications, 2003
o LVT-2 & A2 model technical manual, David E. Harper, Letterman Publications, 2003
o LVT line drawings, David E. Harper, Letterman Publications, 2003
Wow, what a cool build! 
Exterior is spot on & I really like all the detail work you put into the gear stowage. Can’t wait to see more pics…keep ‘em coming.
