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Landing craft tanks played ‘vital role’ in success of D-Day
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 ...
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Exercise Tiger: D-Day disaster ships to be protected
The US amphibious craft, LST-507 and LST ... where the Americans would land for D-Day on 6 June 1944. Several weeks earlier, on 28 April 1944, eight tank-landing ships converged in Lyme Bay ...
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How an often overlooked World War II-era shipbuilder designed the boat that Eisenhower said 'won the war for us'
30-caliber machine guns, and room for some 36 infantrymen, "Higgins Boats" proved instrumental on D-Day. Those landings ... a design for a new 56-foot tank landing craft three days before a ...
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Welsh D-Day veteran recalls horrors of Normandy landings
Recalling his initial deployment from the landing craft, he said ... "I still thought it was a beach exercise," he said. Veterans mark D-Day as leaders say 'thank you' 10 things you might ...