BBC4y
Coronavirus: Delays add £75k to cost of D-Day landing craft work
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 ...
Hosted on MSN8mon
Centenarian veterans are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later
D-Day veteran Dick Rung was 19 when he was assigned to a tank landing craft that landed on ... “I could hear all the background noise, the machine gun fire, the bombs dropping, aircrafts ...
BBC6y
Last D-Day craft set for Southsea Beach anniversary landing
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 ...
Business Insider1y
How an often overlooked World War II-era shipbuilder designed the boat that Eisenhower said 'won the war for us'
Two and a half years later, on the morning of June 6, 1944, the LCVPs — short for Landing ... the D-Day landings. Equipped with an innovative ramp design, two .30-caliber machine guns, and ...