Pvt. John Towle who, faced with a company-size enemy force with armor support and comported himself like a one-man anti-tank ...

About two years ago I was talking with Mike, a friend of mine I've known since Ronald Reagan was still in the White House, and he asked me a question out of left field: What if we went on a tour of ...

Though the B-17D was eased into the water in the trough between waves, it still struck with such force that bolted-down ...

In a recent op-ed in the Carroll County Times, “Trump got his WWII history wrong,” Doug Mallouk stated: “Regarding the 80th ...

A year-by-year "what if" filling in a century-long gap of Academy Awards recognition for noteworthy stunt artistry and design in Hollywood movies.

Landing ship, tank Large cargo ships like this LST unloaded tanks and trucks directly onto the beach without needing piers. Courtesy of The National WWII Museum ...

M4 Sherman The M4 Sherman was the backbone of the Allied armored force during World War II ... American naval architect John C. Niedermair in response to Prime Minister Winston Churchill's request for ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, ...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 12, 2025 / 17:26 pm. Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and was a junior lieutenant in the United ...

Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and later became a junior lieutenant for the U.S. Navy.

These aren’t like the troop landing ships one sees in World War II movies, disgorging troops on beaches from Normandy to Iwo Jima. These troops will be invading the enemy in style, in trucks and tanks ...

A flotilla of 13 Landing Ship Tanks sailed from Naples to begin the amphibious landing on Jan. 26, 1944. Aboard LST-422 were Companies C, D, and the Headquarters Company of the 83rd Chemical ...