Assault Craft Unit 2 ... Their ships are capable of carry supplies, troops, cargo, equipment or vehicles from ship to shore.

When Allied forces landed on the Italian coast at Anzio 81 years ago, they began a four-month battle that left some 7,000 of ...

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with ...

A flotilla of 13 Landing Ship Tanks sailed from Naples to begin ... where an exploding mine detonated the landing craft’s flammable cargo and sent the vessel to the bottom.

Combat cargo Marines have one of the most ... air cushions (LCAC), landing craft, utilities (LCU) and boat operations," said Gunnery Sgt. Brent Vines, logistics chief with the 26th MEU.

Higgins manufactured more than 20,000 boats during his decades-long career. His landing craft were used in every ... 36 combat troops or 8,000 pounds of cargo, and 23,000 were built during the ...

PFC Peter Dudenich of Ambridge and PVT William Patrick Nairn of Aliquippa are among 58 Pennsylvania soldiers who died the morning of Jan. 26, 1944, when their ship struck a Nazi mine being remembered ...