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D-Day landings in colour
in a C-47 just before take-off from RAF Upottery Airfield en route to Normandy US troops use a lifeline to rescue several men from a landing craft sunk by enemy fire on D-Day All pictures subject ...
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Australia And The U.S. Must Combine Their Heavy/Medium Landing Ship Programs
Last month, Australia just gave the mid-sized landing craft concept a great big boost. In a little-noticed section of Australia’s recently-released Defence Strategic Review, Australia’s ...
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Navy says it received second of two new landing craft at Haifa Naval Base
The Israeli Navy says it has received the second of two new landing craft, and a short while ago the vessel docked at the Haifa Naval Base. The US-built INS Komemiyut is the Navy’s second ...
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How an often overlooked World War II-era shipbuilder designed the boat that Eisenhower said 'won the war for us'
A day after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, New Orleans-based shipbuilder Andrew Higgins filed an idea with the US Patent Office for a landing craft that could transport US soldiers from ...