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 and air support to land behind German lines at Anzio and to cut off ...
DILLSBURG, Pa. (WHTM)– Their official designation was Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, or LCVP. Usually, they were just called Landing Craft. Sometimes they were called Higgins boats after their ...
Two green helmets with scratches sit on a bunk. Metal dinner trays are stacked in the kitchen — the actual ones used by servicemen for meals. An old Jeep is parked on board with a Red Cross emblem and ...
The Aleksandr Shabalin is a Ropucha-class landing ship that entered service in 1985 and has served in the Soviet and Russian ...
LONDON (AP) — As a young Women’s Royal Naval Service officer in World War II, Christian Lamb tried to make sure British troops were in exactly the right place when they scrambled onto Normandy’s ...
Nicholas Hartman was 20 when he died on D-Day during WWII. This summer, nearly 80 years after his death, he was finally ...
When Allied forces landed on the Italian coast at Anzio 81 years ago, they began a four-month battle that left some 7,000 of their 100,000 troops dead. That toll included 58 soldiers from the Keystone ...
ARROMANCHES-LES-BAINS, France (Reuters) - With a single piper playing bagpipes on deck, a restored World War Two amphibious vehicle landed on Gold Beach in Normandy on Thursday, exactly 80 years after ...
"It’s an honor to serve," says World War II U.S. Navy veteran Harry Mohr. "It’s a better honor to be alive." Yet Mohr says he was never scared for his life while serving as a Radioman Second Class on ...
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