HyperWar Subject Index
Amphibious Warfare

Development of Concepts and Landing Craft

• "Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia" Major Earl H. Ellis, USMC (1921)
• "Evolution of Modern Amphibious Warfare, 1920-1941"
  [HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II,
  Vol. I Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, Part I, Chapter 2]
• "1941 Naval Organization, Doctrine and Landing Craft Developments for Amphibious War"
  [Chapter VI of The Amphibians Came to Conquer]
• Roebling's Alligator: The Origin of the Assault Amphibian
• Alligators, Buffaloes, and Bushmasters:
  The History of the Development of the LVT Through World War II
• Skill in the Surf: A Landing Boat Manual [LCVP/LCM(3) operations]

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Amphibious Warfare Doctrine

General:

• Joint Action of the Army and the Navy [Chapter VI: "Joint Overseas Expeditions"[

U.S. Navy:

• War Instructions, U.S. Navy (1944) [FTP 143(A)]
• Landing Operations Doctrine [FTP 167]
• Ship To Shore Movement [FTP 211]
• Transport Doctrine, Pacific Fleet, through December 1945

• Aerology and Amphibious Warfare [NAVAER Reports on amphibious operations]

U.S. Army:

• Landing Operations on Hostile Shores [FM 31-5]

U.S. Marine Corps:

• Staff Officer's Field Manual for Amphibious Operations
• "Evolution of Modern Amphibious Warfare, 1920-1941"
  [HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II,
  Vol. I Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, Part I, Chapter 2]
• "The Development of FMFPac" [Fleet Marine Forces, Pacific]
  [HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II,
  Vol. IV Western Pacific Operations, Part II, Chapter 1]
  "Amphibious Doctrine in World War II"
  [HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II,
  Vol. V Victory and Occupation, Part VI, Chapter 1]
• Coral and Brass, by Gen. Holland M. Smith, USMC (Ret.) and Percy Finch
  

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Amphibious Operations

See the sections on specific operations in the Pacific, European, and CBI Theaters.