This document contains material whose purpose has been to record significant incidents and conditions, dates and statistics, and methods and opinions of those who were part of the Seventh Amphibious Force.
This study investigates the effects of sea mining upon amphibious warfare. The methodology involves case studies of amphibious assaults conducted at Gallipoli, Normandy, Wonsan, and the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm. The cases are...
Commander Group Two, Amphibious Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet
Details preparations for the operation, supporting operation and movement to the objective. Gives a general narrative of the assault phase and a chronology of operations. Additionally the report gives information gunfire support, air support...
This report covers the naval phases of the amphibious operations in connection with the mounting, movement, and landing of the Tenth Corps assigned to the occupation of the Kure-Hiroshima and Matasuyama areas of Japan, following the termination of...
This study examines U.S. riverine force operations in the Vietnam War to determine why the force was established, how and why it evolved, and what significance it held for the war as a whole. This study begins with Operation Game Warden, continues...
This monograph addresses the threats to force projection operations and assesses current doctrine to counter these threats during the operation. The threats considered are sea mines, diesel-electric submarines, anti-ship missiles, and air attack....
Part I of this report is concerned with the overall planning for the invasion of Southern France; part II is the execution of the plan. Planning (decision, formulation of planned action, assignment of task organizations) and execution of the plan...
Commander Task Force 52, Commander Amphibious Group One
This is the report of the operations of Task Force 52 in the Iwo Jima campaign during February 1945; including chronology of operations, intelligence, fire support, air support, underwater demolition, minesweeping, battle damage, medical reports,...
The US is currently involved in a counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq, and similar to the counterinsurgency campaign conducted almost thirty years ago in Vietnam, riverine warfare is an important part. Current riverine forces include the Navy’s...
Journal of Amphibious Group One regarding naval operations during Operation Forager, the invasion of Saipan, Guam, and Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands during World War II.
Topics in this World War Two review include: the invasion of Italy; the Mediterranean Allied Strategic Air Force (trends of activity); the Balkan Theater (Greece and Yugoslavia); operations in the Aegean; R.A.F. educational service (activities in...
Lieutenant Commander Gregory Chapman served as the executive officer onboard the USS Ardent in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) during 2003 and 2004. Joining the ship in April 2003, after they had been operating in support of OIF for a...
This study investigates the impact of Confederate naval mine warfare against the operations of the U.S. Navy during the Civil War. Mine warfare was a cost effective method for the Confederacy to defend its long coastline and inland waterways. A...
This attack operations plan contains all information involving movement, gunfire, communications, intelligence, landing, logistics, medical, alternate plan and additional changes made to the annexes of the original plan 4-45.
Enemy order of battle, troop dispositions, schedule of demobilization and disarmament, status of surrendered armament, distribution of Japanese police, Japanese airifields. Notes: Subjects include disarmament, Japanese War Ministry, prisoners of...
Operations Plans by the commander of Ambibious Group Nine, A.D. Struble, for the Transport Squadron Thirteen for the landing on Luzon, Philippines in 1945.
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...