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 ...
That’s according to the USS LST Ship Memorial Director Chris Donahue ... According to his obituary, Robert was a proud Navy veteran and served from 1961 to 1965 on two LSTs.
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 ... ship’s hull and detonated munitions and fuel in the LST ...
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 ...