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Amphibious Training Base (ATB)(USNATB) Advance Amphibious Training Base are

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bases used for the

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of amphibious warfare. Starting with

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, United States Navy began large-scale amphibious assaults of beaches. To train troops in the use of

Amphibious warfare ship An amphibious warfare ship (or amphib) is an amphibious vehicle warship employed to land and support ground forces, such as marines, on enemy territory during an amphibious assault. Specialized shipping can be divided into two types, most crud ...

s and

Amphibious Combat Vehicle The Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) is a program initiated by Marine Corps Systems Command to procure an amphibious assault vehicle for the United States Marine Corps to supplement and ultimately replace the aging Assault Amphibious Vehicle (A ...

s the Navy established training bases both on the

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and overseas at

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. The Training involved the

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working with The

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and in later years sometimes the

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for

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Background

The

United States amphibious operations The United States has a long history in amphibious warfare from the Battle of Nassau, landings in the Bahamas during the American Revolutionary War, to some of the more massive examples of World War II in the European Theater of Operation on Norman ...

dates back to the early dates of the nation. On March 3, 1776, the

Continental Marines The Continental Marines were the amphibious infantry of the American Colonies (and later the United States) during the American Revolutionary War. The Corps was formed by the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775 and was disbanded in 1783 ...

made their first amphibious landing in the

Battle of Nassau The Raid of Nassau (March 3–4, 1776) was a naval operation and amphibious assault by American forces against the British port of Nassau, Bahamas, during the American Revolutionary War. The raid, designed to resolve the issue of gunpowder shor ...

on to the beaches of the

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. While amphibious operations took place in the

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, and

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, large-scale amphibious training bases were not established till World War II. Before World War II the need for Amphibious Training Base was seen. In 1903, President

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from his experience in the Spanish-American War established a Joint Army-Navy Board in 1903, but no Amphibious Training Base came out of this. One of the first small-scale Amphibious Training took place in Culebra and

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at the request of the Secretary of the Navy

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in 1913. During World War I, the Gallipoli amphibious operations in Turkey did not go well for the

Allies An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out among them. Members of an alliance are called ...

, thus some thought that amphibious warfare was at an end. After World War I, in which Japan fought on the Allied side, Japan took control of German bases in China and the Pacific. In 1919, the

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approved Japan's

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over the German islands north of the equator. The United States did not want any mandates and was concerned with Japan's aggressiveness. As such

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transferred 200 Atlantic

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s to the Pacific Fleet in 1919. With new concerns in the Pacific, in 1921, Marine Commandant Lieutenant General

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asked Major Earl “Pete” Ellis to make up plans for an amphibious war with Japan, as to be prepared. Ellis wrote ''OpPlan 712: Advance Base Operations in Micronesia'', which outlined modern amphibious warfare. The

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was founded on December 7, 1933. Fleet Marine Force was a combined Force of both the US Navy and the United States Marine Corps. On December 7, 1941, Japan carried out a surprise military strike on the Naval Base in Pearl Harbor. Japan hoped to eliminate US military force in the Pacific as it soon carried out attacks across the South Pacific. The attack led the US to enter World War II. During World War II the United States was fighting on two fronts, the Pacific War and the

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. The Pacific War was an amphibious operation of

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and the European theatre required amphibious operations to get a foothold on the

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. European theatre saw major amphibious operations at the invasion of

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and

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. On January 5, 1942

Seabee United States Naval Construction Battalions, better known as the Navy Seabees, form the U.S. Naval Construction Force (NCF). The Seabee nickname is a heterograph of the initial letters "CB" from the words "Construction Battalion". Depending upon ...

Navy Construction Battalions officially began operation. In July 1943 Seabee started an

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, with

Amphibious Construction Battalion 1 Amphibious Construction Battalion ONE (ACB1 or ACB-1 or PHIBCB 1 or PHIBCB One) is an amphibious construction battalion in the United States Navy based in Coronado, California. Amphibious Construction Battalion TWO is its sister unit based in ...

as the first unit, which operated in the Pacific War. Seabee were given the task of clearing beaches of obstacles and establishing beachhead bases. In addition, Seabees built and operated sea ports, airfields and served as elements the United States Marine Corps. This nation's first official naval amphibious training base was established in August 1942 at

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, USNATB, United States Navy Amphibious Training Base. Other base opened on both coasts of the United States. Due to the demand for Amphibious Training, overseas bases were founded in

and the South Pacific. The United States Navy needed to train with the US Army and US Marine Corps, as amphibious landing require complex operations: *

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* Amphibious vessels need to arrive and be loaded with all the supplies and troops needed for the operation. * Must be

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of the landing site * Landing site may need obstacles removed, and the water depth checked. * Landing must be timed to the

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. * Air cover must be timed to landing. * Beach checked for

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and other obstacles. * After troops and vehicles debark, support supplies are unloaded the beachhead

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Underwater Demolition Teams

The US Navy's

Underwater Demolition Team Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT), or frogmen, were amphibious units created by the United States Navy during World War II with specialized non-tactical missions. They were predecessors of the navy's current SEAL teams. Their primary WWII func ...

s are the forerunner to today's United States Navy SEALs, they were founded in December 1943 in

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. The first of 30 World War II teams, was Underwater Demolition Team One, ''UDT-1'' established with UDT-2 in December 1943. The Underwater Demolition Team trained at Amphibious Training Base Kamaole on Maui and Amphibious Training Base Waimanalo at Waimanalo on Oahu.

Ships and vehicles

''See also Amphibious warfare vessel classes''
Starting in World War II common amphibious ships used were

Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship, Tank (LST), or tank landing ship, is the naval designation for ships first developed during World War II (1939–1945) to support amphibious operations by carrying tanks, vehicles, cargo, and landing troops directly onto shore wi ...

(LST),

Landing Craft Infantry The Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) were several classes of landing craft used to land large numbers of infantry directly onto beaches during the Second World War. They were developed in response to a British request for seagoing amphibious assault s ...

(LCI). Common boats starting in World War II were LCP boats,

Landing craft tank The Landing Craft, Tank (LCT) (or Tank Landing Craft TLC) was an amphibious assault craft for landing tanks on beachheads. They were initially developed by the Royal Navy and later by the United States Navy during World War II in a series of ve ...

and

Landing Craft Mechanized The landing craft mechanized (LCM) is a landing craft designed for carrying vehicles. They came to prominence during the Second World War when they were used to land troops or tanks during Allied amphibious assaults. Variants There was no ...

boats.

Landing Vehicle Tracked The Amphibious Vehicle, Tracked (LVT) is an amphibious warfare vehicle and amphibious landing craft, introduced by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. (The USN and USMC use "L" to designate Amphibious vessels, also c ...

(LVT), know as Gators and Buffalos were widely used in the Pacific War from 1942 to 1945. The

DUKW The DUKW (colloquially known as Duck) is a six-wheel-drive amphibious modification of the -ton CCKW trucks used by the U.S. military during World War II and the Korean War. Designed by a partnership under military auspices of Sparkman & Step ...

, an amphibious truck, was used in all fronts in World War II. An Amphibious jeep was built, but was not as successful as the DUKW.

DD tank DD or Duplex Drive tanks, nicknamed "Donald Duck tanks", were a type of amphibious swimming tank developed by the British during the Second World War. The phrase is mostly used for the Duplex Drive variant of the M4 Sherman medium tank, that wa ...

, a variant of the M4 Sherman was used at

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with mix results. Post war the US LCU was used for beach landings. The

Cadillac Gage Commando The Cadillac Gage Commando, frequently denoted as the M706 in U.S. military service, is an American Armored car (military), armored car designed to be Amphibious vehicle, amphibious. It was engineered by Cadillac Gage specifically for the Milita ...

saw service in

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. Current vehicles include the Assault Amphibious Vehicle in service starting 1971 and

LAV-25 The LAV-25 is a member of the LAV II family. It is an eight-wheeled amphibious armored reconnaissance vehicle built by General Dynamics Land Systems and used by the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army. History During the 198 ...

in service starting in 1983.

Landing Craft Air Cushion The Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) is a class of air-cushioned landing craft (hovercraft) used by the United States Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). They transport weapons systems, equipment, cargo and personnel from sh ...

launched from

Amphibious assault ship An amphibious assault ship is a type of amphibious warfare ship employed to land and support ground forces on enemy territory by an amphibious assault. The design evolved from aircraft carriers converted for use as helicopter carriers (and, ...

in service starting 1986. Amphibious assault ships included

Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship The ''Harpers Ferry''-class of the United States Navy is a class of dock landing ships completed in the early 1990s. Modified from the , the design sacrifices landing craft capacity for more cargo space, making it closer to an amphibious trans ...

San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock The ''San Antonio'' class is a class of amphibious transport docks, also called a "landing platform, dock" (LPD), used by the United States Navy. These warships replace the LPDs (including ''Cleveland'' and ''Trenton'' sub-classes), as well as ...

s, and

Wasp-class amphibious assault ship The ''Wasp'' class is a class of landing helicopter dock (LHD) amphibious assault ships operated by the United States Navy. Based on the , with modifications to operate more advanced aircraft and landing craft, the ''Wasp'' class is capable of t ...

Current Amphibious Training Bases

Naval Amphibious Base Coronado Naval Amphibious Base Coronado (NAB Coronado) is a US naval installation located across the bay from San Diego, California. The base, situated on the Silver Strand, between San Diego Bay and the Pacific Ocean, is a major Navy shore command, sup ...

(1943 – present) *

Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek–Fort Story Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek–Fort Story (JEBLC-FS), established October 1, 2009, is a Joint Base of the United States military that is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The installation is made up of former U.S Army post Fort Story a ...

(2005–present) **

Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek A navy, naval force, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval warfare, naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral zone, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and ...

Joint Expeditionary Base–Little Creek Joint Expeditionary Base–Little Creek (JEB–LC), formerly known as Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek and commonly called simply Little Creek, is the major operating base for the Amphibious Forces in the United States Navy's Atlantic Fleet. T ...

- Amphibious Training Base Camp Bradford (1942 – present) **

Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story Joint Expeditionary Base-Fort Story, commonly called simply Fort Story is a sub-installation of Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek–Fort Story, which is operated by the United States Navy. Located in the independent city of Virginia Beach, Vi ...

- US Army (1914–present) *

Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune () is a United States military training facility in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Its of beaches make the base a major area for amphibious assault training, and its location between two deep-water ports ( Wilmingt ...

- US Marines (1942–present) *

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is the major West Coast base of the United States Marine Corps and is one of the largest Marine Corps bases in the United States. It is on the Southern California coast in San Diego County and is bordered by Oc ...

- US Marines (1942 – present) * Amphibious Training Base Waimānalo now Marine Corps Training Area Bellows (1999–present) * Amphibious Training Base at

Naval Base Okinawa Naval Base Okinawa, now Naval Facility Okinawa, was and is a number of bases built after the Battle of Okinawa by United States Navy on the Okinawa Island of Japan. The naval bases were built to support the landings on Okinawa on April 1, 1945, a ...

(1999 – present) ** Special Amphibious Training events are held around the world, some are joint events with other nations.

Closed Amphibious Training Bases

In the United States

Naval Amphibious Training Base Solomons Map of Naval Amphibious Training Base Solomons Naval Amphibious Training Base Solomons also called Naval Amphibious Training Base Solomons Island was a US Amphibious Training Base at Solomons, Maryland, on the Dowell Peninsula, from 1942 to 1 ...

(1942-1945)` *

Amphibious Training Base Morro Bay Amphibious Training Base Morro Bay also called Camp Morro Bay and Morro Bay Section Base was a US Navy training base for amphibious beach assault during World War II. The base opened in 1941 to train troops for the Pacific theater of operatio ...

(1941–1945) * Naval Amphibious Training Base Fort Pierce (1943-1946) * Amphibious Training Base, Castroville -

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(1942-1945) * Amphibious Training Base Kamaole -

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(1943-1945) * Amphibious Training Base Waimanalo - Naval Base Hawaii (1943-1945) * Waipio Peninsula Amphibious Base - Naval Base Hawaii (1943-1945) *Advanced Amphibious Training Base Ocracoke (AATB)

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(1943-1946) *

Camp Garcia Vieques MCAS Vieques Airport was a Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) at MCB Camp Garcia on the island-municipality of Vieques in Puerto Rico. It was built in 1960 by USMC engineers and consisted of a single 5,000 ft east–west runway. It was used to ...

- US Marines (1913, 1960–2003) *

Amphibious Training Center Engineer Special Brigades were amphibious forces of the United States Army developed during World War II. Initially designated engineer amphibian brigades, they were redesignated engineer special brigades in 1943. The 1st, 5th, and 6th Enginee ...

Camp Edwards Camp Edwards is a United States military training installation which is located in western Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Originally the Massachusetts Military Reservation (which was another name for it until 2013) acquired in Se ...

(1942-1945) **

Camp Gordon Johnston Camp Gordon Johnston was a World War II United States Army training center located in Carrabelle, Florida, United States. The site's history is featured at the Camp Gordon Johnston Museum. History Camp Gordon Johnston opened in September 1942 as ...

(1942 - 1946) **

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(Camp 1917–present) (Amphibious Training Center 1942 - 1945)

In Africa

US Naval Bases North Africa: * Ténès Naval Base (1942-1945) * Béni Saf Naval Base (1942-1945) *

Bizerte Naval Base US Naval Bases in North Africa were sea ports and air base used in North Africa during World War II by the United States Navy. The ports and air bases supplied the troops of the Allies of World War II, Allies armies in the flight against Ger ...

(1942-1945) * Tunis Naval Base (1942-1945) * Ferryville Naval Base (1942-1945)

In the Pacific

: *

Naval Base Cairns Naval Base Brisbane was a major United States Navy base built in the early part of World War II at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. At first, operated as a base for patrol aircraft and convoy escort aircraft to protect the last leg of the Pacif ...

Australia (1943 - 1945) (now

HMAS Cairns (naval base) HMAS ''Cairns'' is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base located adjacent to the Trinity Inlet on the shore of Trinity Bay in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Although used regularly as a port-of-call since before World War II, a permanent RAN p ...

* Amphibious Training Base

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Australia (1943 - 1945) * Port Stephens amphibious landing training base-HMAS Assault Australia shared (1943 - 1945) * Training Centre

Toorbul Point Sandstone Point is a coastal locality in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Sandstone Point had a population of 3,959 people. Geography Sandstone Point is approximately north of Brisbane, located on Caboolture–Bribie Is ...

Australia shared (1943 - 1945) * Amphibious Training Base Milne Bay Swinger Bay Alotau Base, Papua New Guinea (1942 - 1945)

Amphibious Construction Battalion 2 Amphibious Construction Battalion TWO (abbreviated as ACB 2, or PHIBCB 2) is an amphibious construction battalion in the United States Navy based in Little Creek, Virginia. Amphibious Construction Battalion ONE is its sister unit based in Coronado ...

Māhia Peninsula Māhia Peninsula (Maori: or ) is located on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, in the Hawke's Bay region, between the towns of Wairoa and Gisborne. Rocket Lab has set up its Launch Complex 1 close to Ahuriri Point at the southe ...

Amphibious Training beach in

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(1942-1945) *

Petone Petone (Māori: ''Pito-one''), a large suburb of Lower Hutt, Wellington, stands at the southern end of the Hutt Valley, on the northern shore of Wellington Harbour. The Māori name means "end of the sand beach". Europeans first settled in P ...

landing beach training at

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(1942-1945)

In the United Kingdom

* HMS Rosneath at

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, Scotland, US operated base. Also Seabee base. (1942-1945) Combined Operations Amphibious Training Base with

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in west of Scotland and the south of England (1943-1944): * Amphibious Training Base Crow Point in

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, England pre D-Day 1943-44 *Amphibious Training Base Woolacombe Beach Devon, England pre D-Day 1943 Amphibious Training Base Woolacombe Beach, ''youtube.com''
/ref> * HMS Dundonald Troon Scotland * Dundonald Air Station in South Ayrshire, Scotland, also used for amphibious landing training *HMS Dinosaur I, HQ for tank landing craft training,

Troon, Ayrshire Troon is a town in South Ayrshire, situated on the west coast of Ayrshire in Scotland, about north of Ayr and northwest of Glasgow Prestwick Airport. Troon has a port with freight services and a yacht marina. Up until January 2016, P&O ope ...

Scotland *HMS Stopford at

West Lothian West Lothian ( sco, Wast Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Iar) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and was one of its historic counties. The county was called Linlithgowshire until 1925. The historic county was bounded geographically by the Av ...

Scotland, landing craft base *

Port Glasgow Port Glasgow ( gd, Port Ghlaschu, ) is the second-largest town in the Inverclyde council area of Scotland. The population according to the 1991 census for Port Glasgow was 19,426 persons and in the 2001 census was 16,617 persons. The most rece ...

Scotland, Landing Craft Maintenance base *HMS Mylodon at

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Englan,d Landing Craft base *HMS Woolverstone at

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line r ...

England, Landing Craft base *HMS Helder at

Brightlingsea Brightlingsea is a coastal town and an electoral ward in the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is situated between Colchester and Clacton-on-Sea, at the mouth of the River Colne, on Brightlingsea Creek. At the 2011 Census, it had a pop ...

England, Landing Craft training base *HMS Westcliff at

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, England, Combined Operations Boat Training *HMS St Clement at

Coalhouse Fort Coalhouse Fort is an artillery fort in the eastern English county of Essex. It was built in the 1860s to guard the lower Thames from seaborne attack. It stands at Coalhouse Point on the north bank of the river, at a location near East Tilbury ...

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File:Amphibian engineers land 45th Division troops at Cape Cod.jpg, Amphibian engineers land 45th Division troops at Cape Cod in 1942 File:Unloading_an_LST_Pontoon_Causeway_at_Safta_Beach.jpg, 1006th Seabees in the Salerno Invasion,

Operation Avalanche Operation Avalanche was the codename for the Allied landings near the port of Salerno, executed on 9 September 1943, part of the Allied invasion of Italy during World War II. The Italians withdrew from the war the day before the invasion, bu ...

, unloading an LST ship over a Pontoon Causeway at Safta Beach in September 1943. The ship had trained and loaded with the Pontoon Causeway at an US Naval Bases North Africa Amphibious Training Bases File:1006th_Seabees_using_a_Three-Section_Pontoon_Causeway_at_Safta_Beach.jpg, 1006th Seabees using a Three-Section Pontoon Causeway at Safta Beach in September 1943. File:LVT-4 1.jpg, LVT-4 unloading a Jeep File:Tracked landing vehicles (LVTs) approach Iwo Jima;fig14.jpg, Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVTs) approach

Iwo Jima Iwo Jima (, also ), known in Japan as , is one of the Japanese Volcano Islands and lies south of the Bonin Islands. Together with other islands, they form the Ogasawara Archipelago. The highest point of Iwo Jima is Mount Suribachi at high. ...

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Arzeu Arzew or Arzeu ( ar, أرزيو Berber; ) is a port city in Algeria, 25 miles (40 km) from Oran. It is the capital of Arzew District, Oran Province. History Antiquity Like the rest of North Africa, the site of modern-day Arzew was ...

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HMMWV The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV; colloquial: Humvee) is a family of light, four-wheel drive, military trucks and utility vehicles produced by AM General. It has largely supplanted the roles previously performed by the o ...

s are offloaded from a USN LCAC craft at Samesan RTMB,

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...

Bright Star 2009 DVIDS214767.jpg, Three LCACs conduct an amphibious assault exercise during Bright Star '09 File:Defense.gov photo essay 100813-D-7203C-038.jpg,

US Navy SEALs The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command. Among the SEALs' main functions are conducting s ...

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Naval Special Warfare Center The Phil Bucklew Naval Special Warfare Center (NSWC, also known as "The Center") is a component command of the United States Naval Special Warfare Command, United States Navy. It is sited within Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, California. The N ...

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