A D-Day veteran has celebrated turning 100 with a surprise birthday party organised by a local navy association. Joe Bullock, ...

The last surviving D-Day tank landing craft has been moved on to dry land following its final journey on water. LCT 7074 was renovated with a National Heritage Lottery fund £4.7m grant ahead of ...

U.S. Army troops crowd into a navy landing craft infantry ship during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. read more US Navy/Getty Images / Getty Images ...

"He's a D-Day veteran and he was a Royal Marine on a landing craft operating the big guns to protect the troops that were landing. The whole family is very proud of him." Robert Bellfield ...

In the build-up to D-Day 80 years ago, every port, harbour and river along the south coast was packed with ships and landing craft. Some of them set sail several days before the invasion took ...

the LCVPs — short for Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel — designed and built by Higgins' firm were unloading wave after wave of American GIs on Normandy's Utah Beach during the D-Day landings.

D-Day also offers a powerful counterpoint in the inability of the German military to respond effectively to the invasion despite brilliant planning for this eventuality. A landing craft disembarks ...

Julius Shoulars is 94 and resides in a cozy second-floor apartment in a Virginia Beach retirement community. During an oral-history interview, he recounted his service in the US Navy as a coxswain ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. Photos of Offutt Air Force Base air shows through the years Petty Officer 3rd Class Seth Shephard’s heart beat faster as he ...

In less than 24 hours, more than 5,000 ships crossed the English Channel, along with thousands of tanks and landing craft and ... their harrowing stories, "D-Day's Sunken Secrets" unfolds a ...