beach landing
Storming the coast
A beach landing is a military operation in which troops and equipment are brought ashore from sea, typically under hostile conditions.
The term evokes amphibious assaults like D-Day, where forces must secure a beachhead against enemy defenses: The beach landing met fierce resistance.
More broadly, any arrival of watercraft on a beach: We made a rough beach landing in the inflatable.
- amphibiousOperating on land and water
- amphibious assaultAttack launched from water
- invasionForcible entry into territory
- shoreLand bordering water
- D-Day1944 Normandy invasion
Normandy · assault · under fire · troops · sand · waves · craft · soldiers · storming · surf · coastline · beachhead · enemy lines · seaborne · disembark · tide · high tide mark · bunkers
- amphibious warfareamphibious assault, amphibious warfare, amphibious vehicle, beachhead, marines
- attacksattack, assault, raid, strike, offensive
- invasionincursion, invasion force, invasion fleet, invasion route, ground invasion
- landingstouchdown, touch and go, controlled descent, splashdown, ditching
- military attacksair strike, bombing raid, commando raid, guerrilla raid, night raid
- military operationsoffensive, attack, marines, Desert Storm, NATO operations
beach landingairdrop
Parachute delivery from aircraft
parachute drop · airborne assault · air assault · paradrop · HALO jump
beach landingevacuation
Removal from danger
Dunkirk evacuation · embarkation · withdrawal · strategic withdrawal · pulling out
beach, landing, beaches, beached, beaching, beachy, land, lands, landed