LST-325 is the last fully operational World War II "landing ship, tank" of its kind, first commissioned on Feb. 1, 1943.

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 naval and air support to land behind German lines at Anzio and to cut off ...

DILLSBURG, Pa. (WHTM)– Their official designation was Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, or LCVP. Usually, they were just called Landing Craft. Sometimes they were called Higgins boats after their ...

LONDON (AP) — As a young Women’s Royal Naval Service officer in World War II, Christian Lamb tried to make sure British troops were in exactly the right place when they scrambled onto Normandy’s ...

Two green helmets with scratches sit on a bunk. Metal dinner trays are stacked in the kitchen — the actual ones used by servicemen for meals. An old Jeep is parked on board with a Red Cross emblem and ...

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 their 100,000 troops dead. That toll included 58 soldiers from the Keystone ...

The Indonesian government has discovered nine underwater archaeological remains linked to World War II in the waters off ...

ARROMANCHES-LES-BAINS, France (Reuters) - With a single piper playing bagpipes on deck, a restored World War Two amphibious vehicle landed on Gold Beach in Normandy on Thursday, exactly 80 years after ...

"It’s an honor to serve," says World War II U.S. Navy veteran Harry Mohr. "It’s a better honor to be alive." Yet Mohr says he was never scared for his life while serving as a Radioman Second Class on ...