LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Another piece of history is emerging from the once deep waters near the Lake Mead Marina. A WWII-era Higgins landing craft was spotted this week resting halfway out of the water, ...

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 ...

During WWII, engineers developed the Brodie Landing System, a bizarre but effective way to launch and recover aircraft ...

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 ...

The Aleksandr Shabalin is a Ropucha-class landing ship that entered service in 1985 and has served in the Soviet and Russian ...

ABINGDON, Va. (WJHL) — 81 years ago, World War II allies invaded Normandy, liberating France and Western Europe, and laying the path to victory. “We came in on a landing craft with the front down, and ...

Many in Royal Oak are remembering resident Cliff Alvira, who survived the D-Day landing in World War II, but seldom spoke of the carnage he saw as an 18-year-old U.S. Navy seaman in a landing craft ...

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 ...

One of the more unique San Francisco Bay Area homes — an authentic World War II landing craft converted into an attractive tiny house floating on the water next to a dock in a marina — has hit the ...