Area fallen soldiers remembered 81 years after Allied landing craft sank off coast of Italy
When Allied forces landed on the Italian coast at Anzio 81 years ago, they began a four-month battle that left some 7,000 of ...
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German mining of landing craft in World War II claims local soldiers
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 ...
Two Beaver County WWII soldiers killed 81 years ago in ship explosion remembered
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 ...
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Maritime Matters: The MarineLink podcast
The company was born in the aftermath of WWII, founded on an invention developed ... overheating problem that was plaguing U.S. Navy landing craft. Family owned and operated from day one, today ...
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Report to Congress on Navy Medium Landing Ship
The following is the Jan. 23, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Medium Landing Ship (LSM) Program: Background ...
New Castle News2d
County man among the dead in WWII invasion
A New Castle man was one of 58 Pennsylvania soldiers to die 81 years ago Sunday during an Allied invasion of Italy in World ...
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The World War II destroyer escort that fought like a battleship
Soemu Toyoda’s complex plan for the much-depleted Imperial Japanese Navy to strike a blow against the U.S. forces landing on the Philippine island of Leyte came tantalizingly close to achieving ...
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Remembering local soldiers claimed by mines at Battle of Anzio, WWII
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 ...
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Dutch navy receives first modernised LCUs
The Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) took delivery of its first two upgraded Mk II landing craft utility (LCUs) on 23 January, ...