The barges have road spans longer than football fields that could enable rapid deployment beyond heavily defended beaches.

Utah Beach Utah Beach was one of the two American landing zones on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Situated on the Cotentin Peninsula, ...

CHILLING pictures showing China’s giant D-Day style invasion barges have fuelled fears that they are preparing to invade Taiwan. The giant troop-carrying barges are capable of delivering ...

Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were 1,000 members of a new, specially trained unit – the U.S. Army Rangers.

Every year, at the CMP's Talladega Marksmanship Park, a weeklong series of matches pay homage to the men who landed on the ...

An 80m-long (262ft) display made by knitters across the world recreating the scenes of D-Day has gone on display in ...

A 103-year-old WWII veteran from Poplar Bluff, Clemens Deken, was honored with the VA's Centenarian Award at John J. Pershing ...

“The 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy will be a very special opportunity to honor WWII Veterans through various events, and also to pass the torch of remembrance to the next ...

Marie was aged just 17 when she worked as a switchboard operator in an underground bunker that served as an operational hub for the D-Day landings. The bunker was deep in the tunnels beneath the ...

Several e-petitions called on Southampton City Council to purchase the Whale and buffer pontoon so that it finds a permanent home on council land A "rare surviving" relic of the D-Day landings ...

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