Covers abbreviations, definitions, symbols, channels of command, operation orders, landing tables, air support proforma, meteorological data, landing ships and craft, amphibian and aircraft, dimensions of vehicles and equipment, engineer and...
This study examines the historical development of the landing craft and the roles and missions of the landing craft air cushion (LCAC). In examining the development of the modern landing craft from Gallipoli to Operation Desert Storm, a conclusion...
This study investigates the hypothesis that command and control functions have a vital impact on the success or failure of amphibious operations. Based on this hypothesis, this study analyzes the amphibious assault landings conducted during...
This document contains material whose purpose has been to record significant incidents and conditions, dates and statistics, and methods and opinions of those who were part of the Seventh Amphibious Force.
Protection of worldwide interests requires a capability to project power across a hostile shore. During World War II, a wide array of amphibious ships and landing craft provided this capability for the United States. However, do current Marine...
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This is a story of the Ando Detachment of the Fifth Division in the vicinity of the eastern shore of Patani in southern Thailand (November 15 to December 13, 1941). Chapters include a summary of friendly and enemy conditions prior to battle,...
This journal consists of operations and planning of the United States Marine Corps Fleet Marine Force for the seizure, capture, occupation, and defense of Iwo Jima.
This guide is published as an aid to training engineer amphibian units. It contains the essentials of the mission, procedure and organization of engineer amphibian troops as developed during the past year (1943?). Basic facts are given, as well as...
The work is the Operation Plan number 3-44 named Forager which superceded Operation Plan 2-44 It includes Appendix A titled "Deletion of Code Words from Action Report." The Operation Plan covers all troop movements and operations against Saipan,...
The purpose of this manual is to present the practical aspects of the employment of a regimental combat team in an amphibious operation. The document presents the planning, embarkation, and landing and assault phases of an amphibious operation at...
Although the U.S. had conducted amphibious operations since the Revolutionary War, it was not until after the Spanish-American War that the military services attempted to codify procedures in doctrine. Early emphasis focused on command...
The purpose of this manual is to provide commanders, their staffs, and instructors with information for a progressive program of amphibious training which will qualify individuals, units, and staffs to perform their functions effectively in assault...
Wilhm, Jack F.; Gueymard, Joffre L.; Harness, Leslie J. Ross, Ralph N.; Sexton, Morrell R.; Williams, James F.; Anderson, Arnold V.; Brubaker, Jack P.; Grant, Joseph H.
Discusses experiences with the invasion of North Africa from strategic and political considerations to the pre-embarkation phase to ocean movement followed by information regarding the landings in Fedala, Casablanca, Mehdia-Port Lyautey. The...
"In coast defense, the general mission of the armed forces is to prevent or repeal a landing by hostile forces on United States soil or in any theater of operations designated by the President."
This thesis traces the development of doctrine for command relationships in amphibious warfare. The study examines the command relationships employed in landing operations through World War I, with emphasis on Santiago in the Spanish-American War...
Over the Beach, written by historian and retired Army Colonel Donald W. Boose Jr., is the definitive history of the extensive but little known US Army amphibious operations during the Korean War, 1950-1953. Building on its extensive experience in...
Discusses field artillery in amphibious operations from planning, embarkation and rehearsal to movement to the objective, landing and assault, consolidation and coordination with other arms.
The purpose of amphibious training for an infantry division is to permit the division to participate in the operations incident to land on a hostile shore in an effective manner. The amphibious phase of an operation is purely a means to an end--the...
Aid to training engineer amphibian unit. Covers amphibious operations, engineer special brigades, engineer boat and shore regiments, engineer boat battalions, engineer boat companies, engineer shore battalions, engineer shore companies, brigade...
This study is concerned only with the landing of airborne fighting forces in an area occupied or controlled by an enemy and with the subsequent tactical commitment of those forces in conventional ground combat. Contents include German airborne...