A day after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, New Orleans-based shipbuilder Andrew Higgins filed an idea with the US ... landing craft were used in every major amphibious assault of World ...
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 ...
An curved arrow pointing right. The Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) is an absolute unstoppable force for the US Navy. This hovercraft can move up to 70 tons of gear from ship to shore with ease.
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 ...
At stake: the US fleet’s historic amphibious capability, which was instrumental in the Allied victory in World War II and ... helicopters and landing craft – across hostile beaches, they ...
As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 soldiers ...
Military honors for WWII veteran, Gilbert Nadeau, 98, were on Monday. The WWII Navy veteran survived kamikaze attacks in the ...
The Israeli Navy says it has received the second of two new landing craft, and a short while ago the vessel docked at the Haifa Naval Base. The US-built INS Komemiyut is the Navy’s second ...