The barges have road spans longer than football fields that could enable rapid deployment beyond heavily defended beaches.
The remains of an Iowa soldier who was killed in World War II have been accounted for, according to the Defense POW/MIA ...
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.
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 ...
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Rangers led the way in the D-Day landings 80 years agoAmong the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were 1,000 members of a new, specially trained unit – the U.S. Army Rangers.
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