DILLSBURG, Pa. (WHTM)– Their official designation was Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, or LCVP. Usually, they were just called Landing Craft. Sometimes they were called Higgins boats after their ...

During the 1930s, Higgins Industries perfected a work boat, dubbed the “Eureka’’ model, designed for the swamps and marshes of the Gulf Coast. The shallow-draft boat could operate in just 18 inches of ...

NEW LONDON - Cape Henlopen eased into its terminal on a recent weekday morning, completing the roughly 16-mile voyage from Long Island's Orient Point under clear skies and gentle winds. It's a ...

D-Day veteran who escorted allied troops landing in Normandy dies aged 101 - Francis ‘Jim’ Grant joined the Royal Marines aged 18 in 1943 and served until 1946, patrolling beaches and escorting allied ...

Plans have been submitted to place a D-Day 80 beacon next to the Landing Craft Tank on Southsea seafront.