Learn how American inventions that helped the Allies invade Normandy on D-Day gave way to equipment being used decades later ...

While June 6 marks the 81st anniversary of D-Day ... and Landing Craft Utility. The LST was a large cargo vessel used to land troops and armored vehicles without docking to a pier. Its large bow doors ...

The D-Day commemoration will feature war ship tours, vintage plane flyover, battle reenactments, music and a movie.

To make D-Day a success, the Allies thought they might have to break through formidable German defences. One unconventional ...

U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa led a naval history symposium near Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France, on June 1, 2025, ...

Under small arms and mortar fire from the enemy, he ensured two Sherman flail tanks were the ... His job on D-Day was to drive a bulldozer; pushing landing craft back out to sea in order to ...

Their official designation was Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, or LCVP. Usually, they were just called Landing Craft. Sometimes they were called Higgins boats ...

Pvt. James Lee Harrington of Cincinnati, Iowa, died in the landing of the beaches of Normandy. 81 years later, he is coming ...