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	Amphibious Forces - Navy Ships
		An amphibious operation is a military operation launched from the sea by naval and landing forces embarked in ships or craft involving a landing on a hostile or potentially hostile shore.
		The principal type of amphibious operation is the amphibious assault, which is distinguished from other types of amphibious operations in that it involves establishing a force on a hostile or potentially hostile shore.
		An amphibious operation conducted to deceive the enemy by a show of force with the expectation of deluding the enemy into a course of action unfavorable to it.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/amphibious.htm (1216 words)

	Amphibious warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the modern era of warfare, an amphibious landing of infantry troops on a beachhead is the most complex of all military maneuvers.
		An early form of amphibious warfare was employed during the War of the Pacific in 1879, and saw coordination of army, navy and specialized units.
		Arguably the most famous amphibious assault was the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, in which British, Canadian, French and US forces were landed at Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword Beaches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amphibious_warfare (1426 words)

	USMC/COMBAT HELICOPTER ASSOCIATION
		The operational plan was prepared by the student staff and provided for an element of the landing force, the staff of a regimental combat team (RLT), and HMX-1 to be embarked on escort aircraft carriers.
		This bookwas numbered 31 in a series of publications on amphibious operations.9 Phib-31 detailed many of the advantages of the helicopter and vertical assault, but more importantly it projected the concept of vertical envelopment well into the future, far outreaching the current capabilities of the helicopters the Marines were flying in 1948.
		Amphibious operations of the future would owe much of their success to the pilots and men of VMO-6 and HMR-161 who flew in Korea.
	www.popasmoke.com /korea/chronology.html (4704 words)

	Soviet Amphibious Operations In The Black Sea, 1941-1943
		Operations in all the fleets, except for the brief operations in the Pacific in 1945, suffered as a consequence.
		The operation was the largest and most complex amphibious assault conducted by the Soviets in the entire war.28 The main assault by elements of a division of the 44th Army landed on the port of Feodosia, which is tucked near the extreme eastern edge of the Crimean mountain chain hugging the Black Sea coast.
		Clearly, the final stage of an amphibious operation being accomplishment of the mission ashore, as initially set forth by Admiral Isakov in the 1930's and as demonstrated during the war, placed the emphasis on the land battle.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1995/ACB.htm (7388 words)

	amphibious warfare - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is sometimes applied to the joint operations of the Allied army and naval forces in the disastrous Gallipoli campaign (1915) of World War I. Amphibious warfare was widely employed in World War II.
		The typical Allied amphibious operation consisted of heavy and continued air and naval bombardment of the enemy defenses, followed by a landing of troops with complete equipment from landing craft; the landing forces were supported in the early stages by naval guns until land artillery could come into action.
		Amphibious landings later occurred in Vietnam War and in the British retaking (1982) of the Falkland Islands.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/amphibWar.asp (625 words)

	Art of Naval Amphibious Operations from WWII
		In a general way, of course, the public is aware that special craft, large and small, are designed to hit enemy beaches, disgorge their cargoes of men and material and then back off under their own power.
		And yet, the Amphibious Forces are a branch of the Naval Service which must appeal particularly to the hearts of Americans since they are in a very real sense " the infantry of the Navy," and their personnel and equipment, because of their front-line duties, form the "fightingest team" afloat.
		The inside of an amphibious tractor hit by an enemy mortar on the beach at Tarawa, it grimly shows the cost of the war.
	www.history.navy.mil /ac/amphib/amphib1.htm (600 words)

	Amphibious Marine, Hovercraft manufacturer.
		Welcome to Amphibious Marine We manufacture air cushion vehicles (acv), commonly known as hovercraft or sev’s (surface effect vehicles).
		Amphibious Marine has been building hovercraft commercially since 1996.
		Many hovercraft operators have had to put up with excessive spray, extreme noise and even unsafe handling characteristics.
	www.amphibiousmarine.com (247 words)

	Battle in Normandy - Amphibious Operations
		All amphibious operations are conducted through sea lanes.
		These are specified by the scenario creator and act to channel all movement at sea and on beaches by amphibious and naval units.
		Unfortunately for amphibious units, any enemy combat, support or forts and strongpoint units within a certain range of the landing unit have a chance to cause casualties on the turn that it lands.
	www.ssg.com.au /Amphib.htm (688 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Airborne Operations
		Operation Pointblank: Evolution of Allied Air Doctrine During World War II
		Operation Babylift: Evacuating Children Orphaned by the Vietnam War
		Operation Marauder: Allied Offensive in the Mekong Delta
	www.historynet.com /air_sea/airborne_operations (797 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Amphibious Operations
		AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II Operation Avalanche: U.S. Navy's 4th Beach Battalion Assault on Salerno During World War II
		Without the presence of the U.S. Navy's 4th Beach Battalion on the fire-swept beaches of Salerno, Operation Avalanche might well have failed.
		As soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division leaped from their landing craft into the choppy waters off Omaha Beach, many cursed the landing-craft pilots who had deposited them too far away from the invasion beach.
	www.historynet.com /air_sea/amphibious_operationss (525 words)

	Amphibious Operations
		An amphibious operation involves the co-ordination of military and naval forces to effect a landing on a hostile shore.
		The first large-scale landing in the Second World War was by the Germans in Norway in 1940.
		Amphibious operations by the Allies included St Nazaire (March, 1942)
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWamphibious.htm (69 words)

	WW2 Combined Operations
		The Combined Operations Command made a huge contribution to the outcome of WW2 by planning, equipping and training for offensive amphibious operations after the evacuation at Dunkirk in June 1940 culminating in the D-Day invasion of June 1944.
		The Command drew on the best practices and expertise the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force had to offer to create a unified force.
		Commando Veterans' Association - for those who wore the green beret for any time from 1940 to the present day.
	www.combinedops.com (214 words)

	Kettlebells for Amphibious Special Operations Fitness
		I have read a lot on kettlebell fitness for the infantryman, the SWAT officer, the Para Rescue operator, etc. I have been throwing around kettlebells for about a year and had the honor of going though the RKC course.
		Mission prep on a ship or dive sight is a workout in itself and mind you, this is just before the operation too.
		As you can see, amphibious work is special and demanding so I think you need a special and demanding drill!
	www.dragondoor.com /articler/mode3/321 (696 words)

	Annie's Veteran's Day Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Army must be prepared to use swift, forceful action to overcome any enemy that might threaten the United States or its interests in other parts of the world.
		, United States, is the branch of the armed forces responsible for most military operations in the air and in space.
		it operates as a branch of the Department of Transportation.
	www.annieshomepage.com /veterans.html (1712 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Air Sea
		Franklin's fire marshal, Lieutenant Stanley Graham, spoke for her whole crew: 'Boys, we got pressure in the lines, we got hoses.
		The American invasion of Okinawa was the largest amphibious assault of World War II.
		Spanish-American War: Battle of Manila Bay -- Commodore Dewey's Victory
	historynet.com /air_sea (539 words)

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