LST-325 is the last fully operational World War II "landing ship, tank" of its kind, first commissioned on Feb. 1, 1943.

It’s more than appropriate to have this ship dock in several places this year,” director said, “so people of all ages can ...

The war against Japan ended before LST-325 was deployed there. The ship was decommissioned in 1946 and was mothballed until ...

When Charles Seiter returned to New York City in April 1946, he saw the Statue of Liberty on the city skyline. After two years abroad during World War II, the New York native was finally home. In his ...

USS LST 325, the last fully operational World War II Landing Ship Tank in the United States, will make a stop in Muscatine 11 ...

ARROMANCHES-LES-BAINS, France (Reuters) - With a single piper playing bagpipes on deck, a restored World War Two amphibious vehicle landed on Gold Beach in Normandy on Thursday, exactly 80 years after ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of ...

According to the Department of Defense, the Prevost patriarch was an executive officer on June 6, 1944. U.S. Navy LSTs and other vessels unloading at low tide at Normandy, soon after the June 1944 ...

A dress rehearsal for the D-Day assault on Utah Beach cost the 4th Infantry Division and associated units nearly four times as many lives as they lost in the landing itself five weeks later. The ...