US Navy sailors assisting US Army soldiers board a Landing Craft Infantry (Large) (LCI(L)) from an LCVP landing craft, probably in southern England, UK, early June 1944. Current Site Statistics » 1,150 biographies » 337 events » 44,024 timeline entries » 1,241 ships » 350 ...
Help needed please, Royal Navy I am trying to find information on my uncle, sadly no longer with us, who served with the Royal Navy and was at Juno Beach on 6th June... Thread by:Julie Beet,Apr 7, 2024, 14 replies, in forum:The War at Sea Thread...
US Navy Asiatic Fleet chief Admiral Thomas C. Hart arrived in Shanghai, China aboard USS Porpoise. Upon arrival, he transferred his flag to yacht Isabel. [Porpoise | Shanghai | CPC]1 Sep 1941 China In China, the American Consul-General at Shanghai, the commander of the Yangtze Patrol...
and unable to smoke or light fires because of the stringent blackout regulations, we went to sleep early. The sounds of gun fire not too far off did not deter us from slumber. Even the uneasy ones slept, and most of us were uneasy. The morning found...
Kingdom of Italy (1940-At Least 1954) Medium Tank – 710 Built The Carro Armato M13/40 was an Italian medium tank used with mixed results by the Italian Regio Esercito (English: Royal Army) from 1940 to 1943 in North Africa, the Balkans, and the Italian peninsula. The tank was ...
For the purposes of training and offensive amphibious operations against the enemy, all RNVR and RN landing craft officers and ratings, and their Royal Navy landing craft, were attached to the Combined Operations Command, itself staffed by Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force personnel under the...
The Birth of theCanon de 25 mm The company Hotchkiss started developing a new tank gun during the First World War. By the time the project was completed in 1920, the war had ended and it was subsequently abandoned. Later in the 1920s, the French Army needed to replace theCanon d’Infan...
182d General Hospital personnel ready for training on Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. Top left, an LCP (L) passes several LCVPs at the Higgins Boat Operations & Marine Engine Maintenance School, Lake Pontchartrain. The landing craft are crewed by US Navy and US Coast Guard students. Official des...
—“with one hand tied behind them.” Pearl Harbor came as a distinct shock to all of us, but to our Navy more than anyone. It upset years of their planning. It was only natural for them to figure on regaining their position in the sun. They must do everything possible to make the...
Soon the Royal Navy’s role would change from stopping German reinforcements from landing on Crete, to a rescue mission with the sole aim of getting allied soldiers off the Island before further bloodshed. Evacuation On May 26th, six days after the invasion, the commander on Crete, General Fre...