AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS

 

  AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS

 

   Author: Arch Whitehouse
   Publisher: Doubleday & Company Inc.
   Place and Date: New York, 1963
   Language: English 

Description

Amphibious operations, or combined operations as they were known early in World War II, are not new. For centuries military leaders have had to plan ship-to-shore invasions of enemy coasts, each campaign providing new and unusual experiences, specialized equipment, and pages of valor. Amphibious assaults in which the commences on water and moves ashore against a defender lodged close to the shoreline are, in most cases, "shockers," for combined operations are a complicated undertaking with many problems and aspects. The invader goes in intending to shock the attacker defender while the attacker is also usually shackled with the dread of what may happen. The impact of an amphibious operation can be greater than its military intent or psychological-political outcome. Today, under the pressure of necessity amphibious landings achieve a new synthesis of the various forms of violence practiced by the Navy, Army, and Air Force.

 About the Author

Arthur George Joseph "Arch" Whitehouse  (1875-1979), M.M. was a World War I Veteran and author of World War I aviation books. 

He was born in England, but lived in Montvale, New Jersey, U.S.A. At the outbreak of World War I, Whitehouse came to England and enlisted as a Private with the Northamptonshire Yeomanry. He then transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. He was with the Northamptonshire Yeomanry again , then transferred to the Royal Air Force.