Their landing craft, infantry-85 (LCI-85), turned back when the craft hit pilings too far from shore to disembark on Fox Green Beach. The boat received machine gun and artillery fire while stuck.

U.S. Army Sgt. John O. Herrick was aboard the Landing Craft Infantry (Large) 92 en route to Omaha Beach during the D-Day assault on June 6, 1944.

LCVPs from the USS Samuel Chase approach Omaha Beach under fire on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (U.S. Coast Guard) The Higgins Boats. At Normandy, Trump would crew an LCI (or "Landing Craft, Infantry"), a ...

Shockley, who died in 2015, maneuvered the landing craft toward the beach and then dropped the front ramp in the water to allow soldiers to run under fire. “I lost a couple of buddies on Omaha Beach,” ...

As part of the first wave of the largest amphibious assault in ... was the 16th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army’s 1st ... The landing craft didn’t go as far toward the shore as ...

An estimated 11,590 aircraft and 6,938 ships and landing craft were part of the assault. As we observe the 80th anniversary of D-Day, here is a look at significant events leading up to and during ...

The Navy last week admitted that it had a brand-new type of ship which has been added to fill out its invasion repertory. The LSM (Landing Ship, Medium) is expected to fill the last gap in the ...

This was no ordinary assault. Omaha would become the most deadly of the five D-Day landing beaches, as the U.S., U.K. and Allied nations attacked Nazi-occupied France in World War II.The ...

"It’s hard to believe but I saw that beach bounce. I could just see it vibrating," said Don Buswell of Ogden, who was aboard a landing craft at Utah Beach on D-Day, in a 2005 interview with KUED.