Tag Archives: D-Day invasion
Twin Disc and its role in D-Day
June 6 marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day – a key event in World War II. Starting that day, wave after wave of Allied troops (approximately 156,000) invaded the Axis-held beaches of Normandy, France. A product made by Racine’s Twin Disc was there, too.,,Virtually every marine gear used by the Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVPs) that carried troops and equipment to the Normandy beaches was produced at Twin Disc’s manufacturing plant at 14th and Racine streets.,,, . Twin Disc first developed a clutch product for boats (marine gear) in the 1920s. By the late 1930s, this product was used in fishing boats and work boats. >click to read<19:15
Time to Pay Your Respects to the Plywood Boat that Helped Win WWII – The Higgins Boat, named after its inventor, Andrew Higgins, was designed to solve what was basically the “last mile” problem for a military invasion >Video, click to read<
R.I. teenagers survived hell on Earth in D-Day invasion
There aren’t many of them left, and here were two of the last — American soldiers who landed on D-Day. Seventy-five years ago. Ernie Corvese is 93 and Richard Fazzio 94, both among the first to come ashore into German fire on June 6, 1944. They are elderly now, but giants, too — men who stopped tyranny, pushed it back across Europe and killed it. I met them in Wakefield, Rhode Island, in a new museum called the Global Education Center, part of the World War II Foundation created by documentarian Tim Gray, who has put both Corvese and Fazzio in D-Day movies. >Video, click to read< Thank you, Gentlemen, and the Greatest Generation. 20:02
