American historian Samuel Eliot Morison once said: "If Tinian in the Pacific was the perfect amphibious operation on a small scale, Operation Dragoon was the nearly faultless one on a large scale.

Japan takes Guam and Wake Island in the central pacific. Japan invades Hong Kong ... August: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands: After the first U.S. amphibious landing of the war, American marines ...

Amphibious warship USS Comstock (LSD-45) is now deployed in the Indo-Pacific with the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, embarked. Comstock is the first West Coast ...

Airfields that played a pivotal yet fleeting part of America's campaign against the Japanese Empire in World War II are ...

The launch of China’s Type 076 amphibious assault carrier ... light carrier capability employed by the United States in World War II and the Korean War. Against these backdrops, light carriers ...

The Americans did not discover until after the war how well informed the Japanese commanders of these islands were. Details of American attacks on Saipan and in the Philippines were known to the ...