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 ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — All across the waters of Hampton Roads during a given week, you’ll see Navy ships from big to small, with some of the smaller ones based at JEB Little Creek-Fort Story.

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 off ...