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Royal Navy: Historic Falklands War landing craft delivers first poppies for life-changing Portsmouth appeal
Portsmouth is the home of the Royal Navy, so it’s brilliant they’re working with us.” Servicemen and women past and present in front of HMS Warrior and landing craft F8. Poppy Appeal launch ...
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Key WW2 anniversary ignored, say veteran's family
Sub Lt Victor Todd, a reservist in the Royal Navy, commanded a large landing craft during Operation Dragoon in August 1944. His son, Steve Todd, attended several services held in Provence last ...
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Wreck found off Cornwall thought to be WW2 storm-hit vessel
A team of divers found the wreck off north Cornwall in April An unexpected wreck found by divers could be one of six Royal Navy vessels ... storm in 1944, six landing craft tanks got into ...
A Legendary Missing World War II Destroyer Has Emerged From the Ocean After 82 Years
The “Dancing Mouse”—the Clemson-class destroyer more formally known as the USS Edsall— and its more-than-200 servicemen went down at the hands of the Japanese military on March 1, 1942, during World ...
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Australia And The U.S. Must Combine Their Heavy/Medium Landing Ship Programs
As the U.S. Navy does everything ... ever since. After World War II, with the advent of super-sized, integrated amphibious shipping, the utilitarian LST-type landing craft was de-emphasized.