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.

After approval in 2022, the few surviving members of the United States Army Rangers that served in World War II received the ...

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. Assigned to Company B, 149th Engineer Combat ...

Witnesses also said a long line of LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry) and LSTs (Landing Ship Tanks), an amphibious assault craft that landed on the beaches to unload tanks, extended for miles along the ...

¶ LST (Landing Ship, Tank), a 328-ft., ocean-going ship with a tank ramp in the bow; ¶ LCI (Landing Craft, Infantry) 157 ft. long, 200-troop capacity, with multiple ramps for fast debarkation; ...

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 ...

At Normandy, Trump would crew an LCI (or "Landing Craft, Infantry"), a 158-foot-long and 23-foot-wide ship capable of ferrying up to 200 soldiers to the beaches.

The Omaha Beach landing The 115th Infantry Regiment was part of the second wave to assault Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, and were to land at the Easy Green and Dog Red landing sectors.

"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.

As part of the first wave of the largest amphibious assault in history, the regiment was assigned to clear Omaha Beach landing sectors.

Soldiers landed in Landing Vehicle, Tracked (LVTs), landing craft, infantry (LCIs), and amphibious utility craft known as “Ducks,” and fought inland.