Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were 1,000 members of a new, specially trained unit – the U.S. Army Rangers.

Galerie Bilderwelt, Getty Images British Navy Landing Crafts (LCA-1377) carry United States Army Rangers to a ship near Weymouth in Southern England on June 1, 1944. British soldiers can be seen ...

the Landing Crafts Assault or LCA, for Ground Forces projection; and Landing Crafts X-missions or LCX, a versatile, fast offshore vessel designed to fulfill Naval Forces’ needs. This press ...

On June 3, they were moved again, this time to Newhaven where the Landing Craft Assault (LCA) were waiting. They were supposed to set off on June 4 but bad weather postponed their departure.

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 ...

of 12 craft each carried across the English Channel by the Monowai. LCA stands for a ‘Landing Craft Assault’. Frederick Turner was born in Sunderland on 3rd April 1918 and returned there ...

In 1943, Charlie Drake obtained a contract to build 16, later 72 Landing Craft Assault or LCA’s were built in 72 days. In order to fulfil this contract a quick expansion of the labour force was ...