“But I lasted and was appointed an officer then sent to Troon for officer training for another six weeks and then appointed to a tank landing craft ready for the D-Day landings. “The war had been ...

Operating off the guided missile frigate USS Jarrett (FFG-33), one of the Night Stalkers’ MH-6s spotted the 614-ton Iranian tank landing ship Iran Ajr laying mines next to the Middle Shoals ...

BENOUVILLE, France (AP) — World War II veterans from the United States, Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day la ...

Lorance served in the Navy in the Pacific as a skipper of a tank landing craft and landing ship tank. He also served in Okinawa, during active duty that lasted from July, 1943, through June ...

VATICAN CITY — The archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, said Tuesday that the cardinals had been considering the necessary qualities for the next successor of Peter; and, for him, a ...

Thai shipbuilder Marsun and the Ministry of Defence of Sultanate of Oman held a steel-cutting ceremony for new the new Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) project for the Royal Navy of Oman. Marsun Public ...

BANGKOK: The Royal Navy of Oman (RNO) celebrated the laying of the first iron plate for the construction of four automated landing craft, part of the 'Sawari' project, at Marsun Shipbuilding Company ...

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COMMENTARY: In ‘Mahmoud v. Taylor,’ the court has the opportunity to safeguard the central role of parents in forming their children. People supporting the right to opt-out their children from ...

The amphibious group includes the LHD Mistral, the frigate Surcouf, helicopters, drones and landing craft, according to a statement from French Consul General Rodolphe Sambou. “These ships ...