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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 ...
Portraits: Honoring Black LGBTQ+ Philadelphians” at William Way LGBT Community Center ...
These are the best model rockets ahead of Amazon Prime Day, featuring NASA and Blue Origin, as well as STEM rockets, all included.
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.