30-caliber machine guns, and room for some 36 infantrymen, "Higgins Boats" proved instrumental on D-Day. Those landings, still the largest seaborne invasion in history, were a major turning point ...

Think D-Day landing — and you’ve got a vision of ... Also based at Little Creek, some smaller ships you may see include the ...

China is reportedly building a fleet of landing ships that could be used in an invasion of Taiwan. The barges have been likened to "Mulberry harbours" that were built for the Normandy landings in ...

Over three million service personnel were involved and it all hinged on the success of the Normandy Landings on D-Day. If the German troops were able to prevent the initial landings, the campaign ...

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 ...

Mr Bullock served on landing craft, small naval vessels that took troops from ship to shore, on Juno beach on D-Day. He worked as a joiner on the boats and went on to make coffins in later years.