As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with ...

Services were held Monday for Gilbert "Gil" Nadeau, who survived kamikaze attacks while serving aboard a Navy landing craft in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Nadeau died Oct. 19 ...

The remains of a Marine killed in World War II were identified and are scheduled ... It said that his vehicle was an LVT-1, an amphibious landing vehicle, named "Wabbit Twacks" and painted with ...

As part of a strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis during World War II, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 ...

PFC Peter Dudenich of Ambridge and PVT William Patrick Nairn of Aliquippa are among 58 Pennsylvania soldiers who died the morning of Jan. 26, 1944, when their ship struck a Nazi mine being remembered ...

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...

To give you an idea of the sort of man Nigel Stoate is, when we ask him to pull the star of this story – his amphibious GMC-manufactured ‘DUKW’ landing craft – out of his garage ...

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate ... A flotilla of 13 Landing Ship Tanks sailed from Naples to begin the amphibious landing on Jan. 26, 1944. Aboard LST-422 were Companies C ...

“The barges are reminiscent of the Mulberry Harbours built for the allied invasion of Normandy during World War II,” Sutton observes ... other ships or landing craft to dock.