the LCVPs — short for Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel — designed and built by Higgins' firm were unloading wave after wave of American GIs on Normandy's Utah Beach during the D-Day landings.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. purportedly declared as his Higgins landing craft drifted about ... American figure to storm the beaches during the invasion of Normandy. And he did so armed only with ...

on board a landing craft assault vessel (LCA) in Weymouth harbour, Dorset, 4th June 1944 bound for the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy). Most of them fought across the German beachfront ...

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, he was among the few remaining survivors of the epic Allied invasion ...

On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched the biggest armada in history to invade the Normandy beaches and liberate ... along with thousands of tanks and landing craft and nearly 200,000 men.

The Normandy ... before hundreds of landing craft disgorged the infantry troops. Survivors recall the sea being red with blood. Thousands were killed on both sides on the beaches, codenamed ...

DAN SNOW: 7 miles off the coast of Normandy France ... their target for D Day was the city of Caen As the landing craft powered into sword beach troops were heartened by the smoking shoreline ...