On a recent morning, the R/V Echo, a 26-foot landing craft custom-built for the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University ...

Everett Spackman of Laramie, Wyoming, has seen a lot over his 100 years of life. He served in two wars, and remembers the ...

President Donald Trump’s escalating immigration crackdown has sparked a new round of lawsuits alleging illegal seizures by masked federal agents, as well as violations of U.S. privacy rights and envir ...

Portraits: Honoring Black LGBTQ+ Philadelphians” at William Way LGBT Community Center ...

Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a new documentary video about the Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) built for the US Navy in the 80s. Footage Credit: US Navy , Derivative Work by The Daily ...

Building Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day exploits find fresh life in a Saskatoon museum A soldier with PTSD, and a group of eager teens, built a scale model of Juno Beach over 16 months - inch by inch ...

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

He adapted his designs for landing craft. The first versions were not that great; the designs called for soldiers to jump over the sides of the boats, exposing them to enemy fire.

Today – June 6, 2025 – marks 81 years since the the D-Day landings began on the Normandy beaches of France during World War Two. D-Day in 1944 was an important turning point during World War ...

(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.