They are now expected to fetch $20,000 when they go up for auction at Hansons Auctioneers. The post Top secret D-Day maps up ...

6th June 1944, S.S.Empire Battle Axe, anchored 8 miles off Normandy Beach. Our 1st wave of Landing Craft Assault (LCA) got the troops on board to go to the beaches, I was in the 2nd wave which ...

I was loading up just before D-Day, the landing crafts at Southampton, were rocket launching craft — there were 960 rockets in fixed racks for each landing craft. They weighed 100wt each.

A WWII-era Higgins landing craft was spotted this week resting halfway out of the water, the latest sunken artifact unearthed by the drought-stricken water source. The boat has been known to many ...

Royal Navy: Historic Falklands War landing craft delivers first poppies for life-changing Portsmouth appeal By Freddie Webb Defence Reporter Comment Published 24th Oct 2024, 17:21 BST ...