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Parent topics

• Amphibious warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Littoral (military) [r]: In a military context, waterways where relatively light shore-based weapons are potential threats, and in water shallow enough to change the "blue ocean" techniques for submarine warfare. ^[e]
• Littoral warfare [r]: Air, sea, subsurface, and land warfare that takes place in waters near a coast, or on coastal land areas. ^[e]
• Royal Marines [r]: Naval infantry of the United Kingdom; a brigade-sized force of long experience in amphibious warfare ^[e]
• United States Marine Corps [r]: Branch of the U.S. armed forces serving as elite fighters on land and aboard sea-going amphibious warfare ships. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Amphibious Assault Vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Landing Craft Rocket [r]: Second World War vessel for a variant of naval gunfire support in amphibious warfare. Along with the landing craft carrying troops, some landing craft would be filled with rows of multiple rocket launchers, so that a massive amount of fire could be delivered alongside or just ahead of the troops, stunning defenders that survived. ^[e]
• Landing craft, mechanized [r]: Moderately large landing craft used in amphibious warfare to transport tanks and other heavy equipment from the transport ships to the beach ^[e]
• Landing craft, personnel (large) [r]: A WWII landing craft of exceptionally shallow draft, appropriate for certain difficult beach approaches, but also to carry guns or rockets for final fire support ^[e]
• Landing craft, vehicle, personnel [r]: A widely used light landing craft of WWII, which could land 30-40 troops, or small vehicles, on a beach, withdraw, and return to a ship ^[e]
• Landing craft, utility [r]: Add brief definition or description

Landing craft history

• Operation Sea Lion [r]: Germany's plan to invade the United Kingdom during the Second World War, beginning in 1940. ^[e]
• Battle of Normandy [r]: Often oversimplified as "D-Day", the three-month campaign starting with the June 6, 1944 landings on the beaches of occupied France, lasted for three months, until the liberation of the last Norman commune on 25 August 1944 ^[e]
• Battle of Tarawa [r]: Fought in November 1943, a U.S. Marine Corps force made an amphibious attack in the Tarawa atoll of the Gilbert Islands, principally against the island of Betio; it was an American victory but with very high casualties, and a significant part of a distinct strategic offense ^[e]

Other related topics

• Amphibious Assault Ship [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Amphibious Ready Group [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Amphibious ship [r]: A ship designed for amphibious warfare, as opposed to a smaller landing craft ^[e]
• Amphibious warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Attack cargo ship [r]: A WWII-era U.S. Navy ship designed specifically to carry heavy equipment, supplies and troops in support of amphibious assaults, and to provide naval gunfire support during those assaults. ^[e]
• Combat loading [r]: A method of loading cargo into ships that will carry it to amphibious landing sites, such that can be unloaded in a manner optimized to meet the operational needs of combat rather than maximizing the utilization of the ship's cargo space ^[e]
• Landing Helicopter Dock [r]: Amphibious warfare ships with both an internal dock that can be flooded to allow smaller landing craft to swim out, as well as a flight deck for helicopters and STOVL aircraft; with more flight deck space than the current Landing Platform Dock ships ^[e]
• Landing Platform Dock [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Enforcer-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • San Antonio-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Large Amphibious Landing Ship [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Prepositioning ship [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Naval gunfire support [r]: Add brief definition or description