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 ...

In less than 24 hours, more than 5,000 ships crossed the English Channel, along with thousands of tanks and landing craft and nearly ... their harrowing stories, "D-Day's Sunken Secrets" unfolds ...

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 ...

U.S. Army troops crowd into a navy landing craft infantry ship during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. read more US Navy/Getty Images / Getty Images ...

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.