Business Insider1 年
How an often overlooked World War II-era shipbuilder designed the boat that Eisenhower said ...
His landing craft were used in every major amphibious assault of World War II, from the shores of Europe ... in seeing a design for a new 56-foot tank landing craft three days before a scheduled ...
Forbes1 年
Australia And The U.S. Must Combine Their Heavy/Medium Landing Ship Programs
The vessel was expected to carry some three Abrams M1A1 tanks ... After World War II, with the advent of super-sized, integrated amphibious shipping, the utilitarian LST-type landing craft was ...
Citizen's Voice23 天
German mining of landing craft in World War II claims local soldiers
As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from ... A flotilla of 13 LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) sailed from Naples to begin the amphibious landing on Jan. 26, 1944.
BBC6 年
Last D-Day craft set for Southsea Beach anniversary landing
More than 800 tank landing craft took part in Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944 The last surviving D-Day tank landing craft will touch down on Southsea Beach to mark the 75th ...
BBC4 年
Coronavirus: Delays add £75k to cost of D-Day landing craft work
Restrictions implemented in March prevented the landing craft being moved from Portsmouth Naval Base Delays to restoration work on the last surviving D-Day tank landing craft have added £75,000 ...