A vital component in the success of the D-Day landings were the landing craft which carried the tanks and heavy guns across the Channel to back up the thousands of soldiers as they descended on the ...

One of the great U.S. building jobs in World War II was the high-speed construction of the swarming fleets of landing craft for the Allied amphibious attacks on Sicily, Italy, Attu, Kiska and Rendova.

The tanks never had a chance. There are three of them, M-7 Priests, lying close together on the floor of the English Channel, just off the coast of Normandy. They came to rest there 70 years ago, ...

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 ...

Dave Maurer's column about the World War II Landing Ship Tank ("McIntyre had plans for the Navy," The Daily Progress, June 3) illustrates very well the U.S. ability to improvise and produce in ...

A previously sunken World War II-era landing craft that once was 185 feet below the surface of Lake Mead, is being exposed as waters keep shrinking. The Higgins landing craft is nearly two-thirds ...