amphibious landing
Sea-to-shore attack
An amphibious landing is a military operation in which forces are transported by sea and put ashore on hostile or potentially hostile territory.
The term combines naval and ground warfare—troops arrive by ship but fight on land.
The D-Day invasion at Normandy remains the most famous amphibious landing in history.
The marines rehearsed the amphibious landing for weeks.
- D-Day1944 Normandy invasion
- assaultViolent offensive act
- shorelineLand-water boundary
- hovercraftFan-supported amphibious vehicle
- Falklands War1982 South Atlantic conflict
invasion · beachhead · naval gunfire · counterattack · reconnaissance · shore party · tidal zone · Pacific Theater · troop carrier · helicopter · maneuver · deployment · armored personnel carrier · logistics · combat boots · occupation · evacuation · sandbar
- naval warfarenaval battles, naval battle, battleship, destroyer, sea battles
- landingstouchdown, touch and go, controlled descent, splashdown, ditching
- military tacticstactics, flanking, maneuver, ambush, battle formations
- Military Transportconvoy, troop transport, airlift, sealift, troopship
- deploymentmobilization, redeployment, rapid deployment, troop movement, troop surge
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, navy
amphibious landingairdrop
Parachute delivery from aircraft
airborne assault · parachute drop · air assault · paradrop · ground assault
amphibious, amphibian, amphibians, landed, landing, landings, lander