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 ...

As part of a strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis during World War II, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 ...

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 ...

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.

The Tarawa-class LHAs and Wasp-class LHDs provide the Marine Corps with a means of ship-to-shore movement by helicopter in addition to movement by landing craft. Three LHAs -- which have extensive ...

which is an internal deck that can be flooded to permit landing craft and hovercraft to load and unload within the safe confines of the ship hull. The vessel has sufficient space to accommodate a ...

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 New Castle man was one of 58 Pennsylvania soldiers to die 81 years ago Sunday during an Allied invasion of Italy in World ...

Forty-eight crew were killed when the Sir Galahad, an unarmed and undefended supply ship carrying British ... files also reveals the remaining landing craft had a defect affecting the lowering ...

Gardai are still questioning five men over a suspected international plot to smuggle cocaine into Ireland via an offshore 'mothership' aiming to transfer its illicit cargo to a smaller craft for ...