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 naval and air support to land behind German lines at Anzio and to cut off ...

DILLSBURG, Pa. (WHTM)– Their official designation was Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, or LCVP. Usually, they were just called Landing Craft. Sometimes they were called Higgins boats after their ...

ABINGDON, Va. (WJHL) — 81 years ago, World War II allies invaded Normandy, liberating France and Western Europe, and laying the path to victory. “We came in on a landing craft with the front down, and ...

Many in Royal Oak are remembering resident Cliff Alvira, who survived the D-Day landing in World War II, but seldom spoke of the carnage he saw as an 18-year-old U.S. Navy seaman in a landing craft ...