World War II veteran who served in Pacific Theater dies at 98
Military honors for WWII veteran, Gilbert Nadeau, 98, were on Monday. The WWII Navy veteran survived kamikaze attacks in the ...
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How an often overlooked World War II-era shipbuilder designed the boat that Eisenhower said 'won the war for us'
His landing craft were used in every major amphibious assault of World War II, from the shores of Europe ... a vessel designed for oil work that got the US Navy's attention for its effectiveness ...
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Australia And The U.S. Must Combine Their Heavy/Medium Landing Ship Programs
isolated Filipino naval outpost ever since. After World War II, with the advent of super-sized, integrated amphibious shipping, the utilitarian LST-type landing craft was de-emphasized.
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Landing Ship Medium Program Stalled Over Price, Navy Cancels Industry RFP
Undated photo of World War II tank landing ship USS LST-325. US Navy Photo “The way the Navy manages programs – shipbuilding programs in particular – is you’ve got the people that enforce ...
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The US Navy and Marines will have to stop relying on British support sometime
At stake: the US fleet’s historic amphibious capability, which was instrumental in the Allied victory in World War II and ... helicopters and landing craft – across hostile beaches, they ...
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D-Day veteran shares diary extracts from 1944
Douglas Parish said he was "glad" he kept a diary of World War Two A ... of the Royal Navy and navies of other Allied countries, included a colossal 7,000 ships and landing craft, crewed by ...