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 ...

A D-Day veteran has celebrated turning 100 with a surprise birthday party organised by a local navy association. Joe Bullock, ...

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 ...

A vital component in the success of the D-Day landings were the landing craft which carried the tanks and heavy guns across the Channel to back up the thousands of soldiers as they descended on ...

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.

while us Brits are content to make the Normandy landings (D-Day) our major focus for anniversaries." The father of Steve Todd from Cleobury Mortimer commanded a large landing craft. Hundreds of ...

After World War II, with the advent of super-sized, integrated amphibious shipping, the utilitarian LST-type landing craft was de-emphasized. But the potential contribution from LST-like vessels ...

In the chaotic aftermath of D-Day on Omaha Beach — 80 years ago this week — only three of the soldiers who died in hold of the landing craft ... years when World War II broke out.

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 ...