Occasional Paper 23 release - From The Sea

6 August 2024

A Comparative Analysis of Amphibious Operations in the Pacific and European Theatres of the Second World War

Cover of Occasional paper 23, with the cover image blurred behind; The black and white cover photograph shows British Army personnel disembarking onto the beach from a Landing Ship Tank (LST) amphibious vessel at Salerno, Italy on 9 September 1943.

Within Occasional Paper Number 23, author Richard Bushby compares WW2 Allied amphibious operations in the European and Mediterranean theatres with those conducted in the central Pacific theatre. The article further examines the relationship between amphibious techniques and broader concepts of strategy and operational art.

Richard Bushby

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