Providence native Jarek Marte’s life-changing enlistment led him to serve aboard USS Iwo Jima as a Navy weapons specialist.

Now, Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Jarek Marte of Providence is assigned to the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS ... for launching and retrieving landing craft. Iwo Jima’s Navy crew ...

Claudius Schulze The attack that morning on W Beach and five other beaches was the first amphibious assault in modern ... out remains of an amphibious landing craft lie in the sand, lapped by ...

Indeed, those were likely what prevented these British soldiers from starting their mission, as this ship had to rescue them from their landing craft in May of 1940 ... divisions of the First United ...

U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...

The change signals a possible break with the tactics which Russia has leant on for over two years, sending in tiny groups of infantry to seep slowly through ... He said that as well as Wednesday's ...

The 225th Light Support Battalion (LSB) provided critical support to 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, Task Force ...

Two paratroopers were injured after a rough landing that was caught on video at a baseball game in Arizona. The parachute landing was part of a pregame ceremony at the University of Arizona's Hi ...