U.S. Army's New Landing Craft Enters Production 80 Years After D-Day. Published: 5 Jun 2024, 12:09 ... whose design is based on the BMT Caimen-90 landing craft, can move over water at speeds ...

Bob Reeners was 19 when he dropped the bow ramp on his 36-foot amphibious landing craft at Utah Beach. The images are still seared into his memory from the day in 1944 when his life "took a left ...

Navy Ensign Joseph Alexander anticipated an farily uneventful mission on June 6, 1944, dropping off jeeps, a Sherman tank and several soldiers on Omaha Beach. The 21-year-old Alexander had been ...

Today marks 81 years since the the D-Day landings began on the Normandy beaches of France during World War Two. June 6, 1944, was an important turning point during World War Two and is one of the ...

An unsung hero has come home. Crews installed one of the few remaining D-Day landing craft inside what will soon be the National Museum of the United States Army.It was enough to bring a tear to a ...

THE last surviving tank landing craft from D-Day has made its final journey. Moving the 193ft, 300-ton amphibious assault ship proved a tricky two-mile sea trek, with an attempt on Saturday night c… ...

A sole surviving D-Day landing craft is to be restored with the help of £4.7 million lottery funding, it has been announced.The landing craft tank LCT 7074 took part in Operation Neptune, the ...

A sunken D-Day landing craft, once used as a floating nightclub, has been raised in a two-day operation. The vessel will now be transported from the East Float Dock, Birkenhead, to Portsmouth ...

What happened on D-Day? The amphibious landings -- codenamed Operation Overlord ... In total, around 7,000 ships took part in the invasion, including 1,213 warships and 4,127 landing craft.

A sunken World War Two landing craft, believed to be the last of its kind in the UK, has been raised from a harbour in Birkenhead. The vessel will be taken to Portsmouth Naval Base. Nick Hewitt ...