WWII US Landing Craft

Amphibious landing forces arc charged with landing enough assault forces and supplies to maintain and reinforce a beachhead on enemy shores. This beachhead would be held until suf ficient ground troops can land and carry the fight to the enemy and defeat him on his own soil.The first recorded amphibious landing on enemy soil was carried out by a strong Persian force landing at Marathon. Greece in 490 BC. A much smaller Greek Army eventually defeat ed the Persian Army and the Persians were forced to withdraw. Julius Caesar of Rome employed amphibious forces when he conquered England in 54 BC. In 1066, Norman ruler William the Conqueror used amphibious forces to cross the English Channel and defeat the English forces at the Battle of Hastings.


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