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.

LCVPs from the USS Samuel Chase approach Omaha Beach under fire on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (U.S. Coast Guard) The Higgins Boats. At Normandy, Trump would crew an LCI (or "Landing Craft, Infantry"), a ...

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.

As part of the first wave of the largest amphibious assault in ... was the 16th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army’s 1st ... The landing craft didn’t go as far toward the shore as ...

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 ...

Many of the landing craft ran aground on sandbars and the soldiers had to wade over 100 yards in neck-deep water to get to the beach. Some units of the 1st Infantry Division suffered 30% ...

Shockley, who died in 2015, maneuvered the landing craft toward the beach and then dropped the front ramp in the water to allow soldiers to run under fire. “I lost a couple of buddies on Omaha Beach,” ...

Soldiers landed in Landing Vehicle, Tracked (LVTs), landing craft, infantry (LCIs), and amphibious utility craft known as “Ducks,” and fought inland. Map of the first two days of fighting on ...

"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.

The remains of Pvt. James Lee Harrington, killed in action on D-Day, have been identified and will be buried in Iowa. Harrington, 21, died aboard a landing craft that was hit by enemy fire and a mine.