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 ...

PFC Peter Dudenich of Ambridge and PVT William Patrick Nairn of Aliquippa are among 58 Pennsylvania soldiers who died the morning of Jan. 26, 1944, when their ship struck a Nazi mine being remembered ...

As part of a strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis during World War II, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 ...

In 1943, when he turned 17 he dropped out of school in order to join the Navy. After his basic training, Bill was assigned to a small vessel known as a landing craft, infantry LCI 455, and was on his ...

The LCI’s (Landing Craft Infantry) could fire to cover a broad front, not merely straight ahead. LCT(R)’s (Landing Craft Tanks — Rocket), LCVP’s (Landing Craft Vehicles Personnel), and LCM ...

Joining the Wrens as a teenager, Mrs Sparrow was sent to Plymouth's Naval base HMS Drake where she witnessed the build-up to D-Day. | ITV News Meridian ...

(Photo by AFP) More than 2,000 specialists from the Ukrainian Air Force could be reassigned to infantry and attack units, Ruslan Horbenko, a People’s Deputy from the “Servant of the People” party, ...

A major controversy has erupted over the reassignment of Air Force specialists to infantry roles, prompting President Volodymyr Zelensky to call for public clarification. On Tuesday, Jan. 14, Vitaliy ...

Russian forces, including North Korean troops, lost "up to a battalion of infantry" in fighting around one village in the southern Kursk region in roughly two days, Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

The 6th Battalion was among the first infantry units raised for the AIF during the First ... It later took part in the ANZAC landing on 25 April 1915, as part of the second wave. Ten days after the ...

The 1st Battalion was the first infantry unit recruited for the AIF in New South Wales ... The battalion took part in the ANZAC landing on 25 April 1915 as part of the second and third waves, and ...