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USS White River: How the US Navy transformed a landing vessel into a legendary rocket artillery ship
USS White River's design was the product of an evolving way to address the needs of shore bombardment during World War II.
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Saving Private Ryan D-Day scene's British historical inaccuracies: ‘Spielberg was wrong’
World War II historian Philip Kay-Bujak ... “Despite Spielberg's insistence that there were no British troops on Omaha Beach, he was wrong. All the landing craft were manned by British sailors ...
Key WW2 anniversary ignored, say veteran's family
The family of a World War Two veteran said the 80th anniversary of a decisive battle passed largely unnoticed by the British ...
80 years after D-Day, family of Black World War II combat medic receives his medal for heroism
Waverly B. Woodson Jr. treated 200 wounded men — all while small arms and artillery fire pummeled the beach — before ...
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Artificial Harbors Were Vital Part of Normandy Invasion
With German forces having heavily fortified the French coast and every French port by the middle of 1944 during World War II, ...
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Burnham-On-Sea war veteran’s daughter receives medals 80 years after WW2
A Burnham-On-Sea resident has this week formally received her father's World War Two service medals, nearly 80 years on from ...
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Museum approved for WW2 amphibious landing craft
A museum will be built in Lincolnshire to house a World War Two landing craft after an application was granted. The Buffalo LVT (landing vehicle, tracked) was dug up by volunteers in Crowland in 2021.
The US Navy and Marines will have to stop relying on British support sometime
At stake: the US fleet’s historic amphibious capability, which was instrumental in the Allied victory in World War II and ...
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Australia And The U.S. Must Combine Their Heavy/Medium Landing Ship Programs
After World War II, with the advent of super-sized, integrated amphibious shipping, the utilitarian LST-type landing craft was de-emphasized. But the potential contribution from LST-like vessels ...
A look back at D-Day: Why the World War II invasion remains important on its 80th anniversary
Another fictitious force, the British Fourth Army ... more than 5,000 ships and landing craft, along with 50,000 vehicles, ...
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USS White River: How the US Navy transformed a landing vessel into a legendary rocket artillery ship
Rocket ships' USS White River's design was the product of an evolving way to address the needs of shore bombardment during World War II ... like the British-made Landing Craft Tank (Rocket ...
80 years after D-Day the family of a Black World War II combat medic receives his medal for heroism
A Black combat medic who treated 200 troops during the harrowing invasion of Normandy during World War II is being honored ...