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The officer who stormed Normandy with nothing but a cane and pistol
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. purportedly declared as his Higgins landing craft drifted about a mile ... to storm the beaches during the invasion of Normandy. And he did so armed only with a cane and ...
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How an often overlooked World War II-era shipbuilder designed the boat that Eisenhower said 'won the war for us'
the LCVPs — short for Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel — designed and built by Higgins' firm were unloading wave after wave of American GIs on Normandy's Utah Beach during the D-Day landings.
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Western leaders and ageing veterans will mark the 75th anniversary of Normandy Allied landing
The Normandy landings was the largest seaborne ... Then, as day broke, warships pounded German positions before hundreds of landing craft disgorged the infantry troops. Survivors recall the ...
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80 years ago, another makeshift harbor sustained the Normandy invasion
Mulberry A was constructed for the Americans off Normandy’s Omaha Beach to supply ... and all types of landing craft could ply freely to and from the beaches.” Mulberry B was a success.
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D-Day's Sunken Secrets
On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched the biggest armada in history to invade the Normandy beaches and liberate ... along with thousands of tanks and landing craft and nearly 200,000 men.