A survey of contemporary navy and marine personnel as to what were the most important amphibious assaults of World War II in the Pacific would yield several answers. Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa would be among the four most prominent, but it is doubtful that many would mention the skillful execution of the Bougainville operation (in which initial landings took place on I November 1943 and, according to the 3rd Marine Division after-action report, ended on 28 December 1943)
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This paper utilizes the 1943 Battle of Tarawa as a lens to examine and evaluate the influence of the...
The requirement for amphibious withdrawal does not come along often, but when it does, there is litt...
Amphibious warfare was critical to the success of Allied forces in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA...
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest, largest, and most complex military action of the Second ...
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest largest and most complex military action of the Second Wo...
The Japanese raid into the Indian Ocean is both a great what-if of World War II and an indication of...
The sprawling battle of Leyte Gulf was fought from 23 to 26 October 1944, and nearly seventy years l...
Since the invasion of Grenada in October 1983 numerous scholars have explored the military, legal, a...
The landing at Inchon in September 1950 is one of the most dramatic such transitions from defense to...
Recent military events have reinforced a long-held naval belief in the necessity for a maritime nati...
Perhaps no prediction has been as consistently made—and as consistently wrong—as the imminent death ...
During the South Pacific campaigns of World War II, the United States Navy faced a formidable challe...
Amphibious operations are a topic central to the history of World War Two in the Pacific Theatre. T...
In the first decade of this century, the Naval War College played a leading role in the newly instit...
If we were directed to make a large amphibious landing anywhere in the world now or in the next few ...
This paper utilizes the 1943 Battle of Tarawa as a lens to examine and evaluate the influence of the...
The requirement for amphibious withdrawal does not come along often, but when it does, there is litt...
Amphibious warfare was critical to the success of Allied forces in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA...
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest, largest, and most complex military action of the Second ...
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest largest and most complex military action of the Second Wo...
The Japanese raid into the Indian Ocean is both a great what-if of World War II and an indication of...
The sprawling battle of Leyte Gulf was fought from 23 to 26 October 1944, and nearly seventy years l...
Since the invasion of Grenada in October 1983 numerous scholars have explored the military, legal, a...