A number of Buffalo LVT landing craft were swept away by floods in Lincolnshire, England, in 1947. Last week, one of the US-made craft was dug up by a group of volunteers after a five-day dig.

An LCT is a Landing Craft Tank. It's what Steve Carter's dad, Luther E. Carter, was aboard on the early hours of June 6, 1944.

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with naval and air support to land behind German lines at Anzio and to cut ...

MANITOWOC - Visitors to the Wisconsin Maritime Museum can honor D-Day while checking out a new exhibit: “The Role of Manitowoc’s Landing Craft Tanks in World War II.” June 6, 1944, or D-Day ...

MANITOWOC - Visitors to the Wisconsin Maritime Museum can honor D-Day while checking out a new exhibit: “The Role of Manitowoc’s Landing Craft Tanks in World War II.” June 6, 1944, or D-Day ...

Dave Maurer's column about the World War II Landing Ship Tank ("McIntyre had plans for the Navy," The Daily Progress, June 3) illustrates very well the U.S. ability to improvise ...

Andrew Higgins, center, developed several kinds of landing craft that were invaluable during World War II. National World War II Museum Higgins manufactured more than 20,000 boats during his ...

Rung, a native of Buffalo, New York, joined the Navy at 18 years old. He was sent overseas to London and assigned to a landing craft tank that was part of the D-Day invasion. He would later say ...

However, the shipyard made a major contribution to the WWII amphibious assault effort, assembling 301 LCTs (Landing Craft-Tank) during the war.

by Katie Pirwitz, FOX 11 News Mon, June 10th 2024 at 5:45 AM ...