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The development of amphibious tactics in the U.S. Navy

by: Smith, Holland M. (Holland McTyeire), 1882-1967

Publication date: 1992

Topics: United States. Marine Corps, United States. Navy, Landing operations, Amphibious warfare, World War, 1939-1945, Landing operations -- History, Amphibious warfare -- History, World War, 1939-1945 -- Amphibious operations

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps

Collection: libraryofthemarinecorps; fedlink; americana

Contributor: Library of the Marine Corps

Language: English

Item 383-C

Shipping list no.: 92-293-P

Introducing the author -- Beginning a series on amphibious operations by the Marine who knows them best -- Amphibious warfare from the Revolution to World War I -- Birth of the FMF, fleet maneuvers, conception of amphibious doctrines -- Training, experiment six Fleet Landing Exercises--1934-1941 -- Three years of experiment in landing doctrine before Pearl Harbor -- Amphibious warfare's influence on the grand strategy of global conflict -- The Baptism--Guadalcanal, Makin Raid, Dieppe, and North Africa -- Strategic Attu and Kiska fall, successful landings made on New Georgia -- Munda, New Guinea, Sicily fall before the Allies' growing seaborne might -- Sicily secured, General Eisenhower not had a bridge to Italy

xii, 79 pages : 28 cm