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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Restrictions implemented in March prevented the landing craft being moved from Portsmouth Naval Base Delays to restoration work on the last surviving D-Day tank landing craft have added £75,000 ...

LOUIS – The remains of a U.S. soldier from Missouri killed on D-Day during World War II will be interred at ... Smith died ...