As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with ...

Naval analyst H I Sutton has published a report in Naval News highlighting the appearance of between three and five new ...

30-caliber machine guns, and room for some 36 infantrymen, "Higgins Boats" proved instrumental on D-Day ... His landing craft were used in every major amphibious assault of World War II, from ...

More than 800 tank landing craft took part in Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944 The last surviving D-Day tank landing craft will touch down on Southsea Beach to mark the 75th ...

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 soldiers ...

One of the last surviving veterans of the D-Day landings has been recalling ... of a fallen soldier as he entered the water from a landing craft, but knew he had to carry on.

In less than 24 hours, more than 5,000 ships crossed the English Channel, along with thousands of tanks and landing craft and nearly ... their harrowing stories, "D-Day's Sunken Secrets" unfolds ...

The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II. A sign outside Trinity Church, New York City, inviting worshipers to ...

D-Day remembrance: World War II veterans return to Normandy on 80th ... more than 11,000 planes and more than 5,000 ships and ...