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1925: Official Historical Account of the Dardanelles Campaign
1931: Gallipoli Campaign; Operations of the British 29th Division from daylight 26 April - 28 April
1931: Study of General Hamilton’s Plan of Landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula, April 25, 1915.
1932: Preparations for and Conduct of the "Ship-to-Shore" Movements in the Landing
1935: History of the Great War: Military Operations: Gallipoli (Access via commercial network)
1936 The Defense of Gallipoli: A General Staff Study by Lt. Col. George S. Patton, Jr.
1940: Landing of the British forces in Gallipoli, 1915 -- Call Number 940.425 K16L 1940
1941: Official History of Australia in the War of 1914 - 1918: Volume I
1941: Official History of Australia in the War of 1914 - 1918: Volume II
1920: Joint Army and Navy Action in Coast Defense
1925: Basic Plan: Joint Army and Navy Exercises, Problem No. 3
1925: Joint Army and Navy Exercises
1927: Joint Action of the Army and the Navy -- Call Number 355.033573 U572 1927
1927: Joint Operations: Landings in Force (Tentative)
1929: Joint Army and Navy Exercises: Harbor Defenses of Sandy Hook July 13-27, 1929
1936: Report on Fleet Landing Exercise No. 2 Held at Culebra, Puerto Rico., During the Months Of January and February
North Africa
1942: Combined Chiefs of Staff Operation Torch
1942: Torch Operation, Comments and Recommendations.
1942: Torch Operation -- Call Number 940.5423 T676
1943: Lessons of Operation Torch -- Call Number 940.5423 L6412
1944: Air Phase of the North African Invasion, November 1942
1950: Armor in the Invasion of North Africa.
1943: Digest of Operation Overlord
1944: Operations Plan Neptune, 25 February 1944
1944: Report No. 23: Observations on Invasion of France and Fall of Cherbourg. June 3 - July 6, 1944
1945: A Review of Air Operations Preparatory to and in Support of Operation Neptune
1945: Notes on the Operations of 21 Army Group, 6 June 1944-5 May 1945 -- Call Number 940.5421 N911 (Oversize collection)
1950: Invasion of Southern France, Operation Dragoon
1950: Armor in Operation Neptune: Establishment of the Normandy Beachhead
1951: Cross Channel Attack -- Call Number 940.54 U56e H319c
1955: Operation Overlord: An Historical Analysis
Sicily
1943: Husky Operation Plans Sicily, Italy
1943: Notes on the Planning and Assault Phase of the Sicilian Operation
1943: Operations Report, 3rd Infantry Division, Sicilian Operation
Attu Island
1943 Preliminary Report on Attu Landing
1943: Final Report of Reduction and Occupation of Attu from the Combat Intelligence Point of View
1945:Combat Narratives: The Aleutians Campaign, June 1942 – August 1943
Guadalcanal
1943: Final Report on Guadalcanal Operation, Phase I
1943: Final Report on Guadalcanal Operation, Volume II
1943: Final Report on Guadalcanal Operation, Volume III
1943: Final Report on Guadalcanal Operation, Volume IV
1943 Final Report on Guadalcanal Operation, Volume V
1943: Interviews and Statements by Officers of the 1st Marine Division on the Guadalcanal Operations
1944: Combat Narratives: Battle of Guadalcanal, 11-15 November 1942.
1949: Guadalcanal The First Offensive -- Call Number 940.54 U56p M648g
1958: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal -- Call Number 940.5412 .H673 1993 v. 1
Okinawa
1945: Participation in the Okinawa Operation, Volume I -- Call Number 940.5426 P273
1945: Participation in the Okinawa Operation, Volume II -- Call Number 940.5426 P273
1946: Amphibious Operations, Capture of Okinawa (Ryukus Operation), 27 March to 21 June 1945
1990: Japan's Battle of Okinawa, April-June 1945 -- Call Number 940.5425 H877j
1905: Landing-Force and Small-Arm Instructions, United States Navy.
1912: Landing-Force and Small-Arm Instructions, United States Navy.
1916: Landing-Force and Small-Arm Instructions, United States Navy.
1920: Landing Force Manual, United States Navy.
1933: U.S. Marine Corps Tentative Manual of Landing Operations, Chapters 1-7.
1938: F.T.P. Landing Operations Doctrine, United States Navy.
1941: Landing Force Manual, United States Navy.
1941: FM 31-5: Landing Operations on Hostile Shores.
1944: FM 31-5: Landing Operations on Hostile Shores.
1951: LFM-1: United States Marine Corps Amphibious Manual: Training
Airborne Invasion of Crete -- Call Number 940.544943 U586a 1941 (Oversize collection)
Amphibious Operations During the Period August to December 1943
Amphibious Operations (Excluding Marshall Islands Operations) January – March 1944
Amphibious Operations, the Marshall Islands, January-February 1944
Army Ground Forces Study No. 22: Amphibious Training Center -- Call Number 355.46 B395a
Conference on Landing Assaults, 24 May - 23 June 1943, Volume I -- Call Number 940.54 C748
Conference on Landing Assaults, 24 May - 23 June 1943, Volume II -- Call Number 940.54 C748
Development of Amphibious Tactics in the U.S. Navy
Inchon Seoul Invasion: Headquarters X Corps, Operations Instructions
Information Pertaining to Island Warfare against the United States
Naval Gunfire Support of Amphibious Operations: Past, Present, and Future
Notes on Preparation for an Amphibious Operation
Operation Chromite: 15 August - 30 September 1950
Over the Beach. US Army Amphibious Operations in the Korean War
Program for Amphibious Training of Army Divisions
Training program, Amphibious Training Center, Camp Carrabelle, Florida
Fuehrer Directives and Other Top-Level Directives German Armed Forces, 1939-1941
German Plans for the Invasion of England, 1940: Operation Sea Lion
Notes on German Preparations for the Invasion of the United Kingdom
OKW Directives for the Invasion of the UK: Operation Seeloewe: Summer and Autumn 1940
Review of the Possible Scale of Invasion of the United Kingdom in 1941
Downfall: Strategic Plan for Operations in the Japanese Archipelago
Downfall Strategic Plan, G-2 Estimate of the Enemy Situation
G-2 Estimate of the Enemy Situation, Olympic Operation, 1 August 1945
Information Bulletin, Southern Kyushu, CINCPAC-CINCPOA Bulletin No. 81-45, 15 May 1945
Japanese Defense Against Amphibious Operations
Japanese Plans for the Defense of Kyushu
Report of Reconnaissance, Southern Kyushu: IX Corps Zone of Operation, Olympic (Majestic) Operation