The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II. Start Over Share Slideshow Published on ...

operates as the in-between for amphibious class LPDs. Their ships are capable of carry supplies, troops, cargo, equipment or ...

DUKW (or ‘Duck’) amphibious truck, outfitted with an extension ladder to scale cliffs in northern France and then rain down suppressive fire on the German defenders.

Like the rest of the D-Day force, the Rangers prepared for ... spent weeks practicing amphibious landings along the English coastline, and scaled the towering seaside cliffs near Swanage more ...

D-Day: Huge invasion of Europe described by ... Canadian and Free French airborne troops shortly after midnight, and an amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armoured divisions on the coast ...

More than 800 tank landing craft took ... importance to the history of D-Day, and Operation Neptune, that vastly complex plan to mount the largest amphibious operation the world has ever seen." ...

30-caliber machine guns, and room for some 36 infantrymen, "Higgins Boats" proved instrumental on D-Day ... His landing craft were used in every major amphibious assault of World War II, from ...

On the controversial and risky nature of the D-Day landings ... The Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944 were among the most desperate undertakings in the history of war. Amphibious ...

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 ...

D-Day also offers a powerful counterpoint in ... scattering paratroopers across the Normandy countryside. Similarly, the amphibious landings encountered stronger-than-expected German resistance ...

Residents living in or near the homes of fallen soldiers from the Normandy landings have been offered memorial trees. Portsmouth City Council has tracked down the past addresses of the 119 men ...