As the U.S. Navy does everything it can to delay the U.S. Marine Corps’ effort to refresh the old World War II-era Tank Landing Ship (LST) concept, Australia is marching forward with its own ...
PFC Peter Dudenich of Ambridge and PVT William Patrick Nairn of Aliquippa are among 58 Pennsylvania soldiers who died the morning of Jan. 26, 1944, when their ship struck a Nazi mine being remembered ...
“We got a special venue here, since the LST is a veteran of WWII,” said LST-325 Board of Directors Vice President Chris Donahue. “80 years ago this ship was at Omaha Beach.” The event ...
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 ...
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 ...
A New Castle man was one of 58 Pennsylvania soldiers to die 81 years ago Sunday during an Allied invasion of Italy in World ...
Hundreds aboard LST-422 were killed, including Dudenich and Nairn. LST-422 during World War II. Dudenich was born on Sept. 18, 1921, in Ambridge to Polish immigrants Nicholai Mikita “Michael ...