Grantham’s Town Mayor, Coun Adam Stokes, will lead this year’s Grantham Carnival parade in a restored DUKW, recently featured in Portsmouth’s D-Day celebrations.
It was restored by farmer Graham Smitheringale and volunteers in the Peterborough area.
The parade leaves Market Place at noon on Saturday (15th), and travels south towards St Peters Hill, turn down St Catherine’s Road, then head along Sandon Road towards Wyndham Park.
DUKWs, pronounced “ducks” played a key role in transporting cargo from ship to shore in wartime, including Operation Overlord.
In the years immediately after the war, they were a familiar sight for day trippers at the seaside, including Cleethorpes and Hunstanton, for rides into the sea. with another DUKW to create the restored vehicle
He bought two “rusty wrecks” of DUKWs in 2017 and combined them to make one restored vehicle in under two years.
The project cost between £30,000 and £40,000 of his own and crowdfunded money.
Another wartime legend, the Avro Lancaster from RAF Coningsby, will fly over the Carnival, at Wyndham Park, at about 1pm
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