I believe that there were landings in Iraq before the British forces went north to Basra. Not big, but adequate.
Marines cross the Tigris and Euphrates, does that count?
I believe that there were landings in Iraq before the British forces went north to Basra. Not big, but adequate.
What he said. I firmly believe that the 1999 intervention is probably the best (and maybe the only) example of an attempted crime against humanity being stopped dead in it's tracks. It's really far more under-appreciated than it should be. And it was a fairly good sized amphibious landing (several, in fact), so it should qualify.
I listen to audiobooks sometimes on my way to work and BBC World Service on my way back. For the last few weeks, it's been Max Hasting's book on the Korean War.
The chapter on the Inchon landing got me thinking...just how many large scale amphibious operations have there been after WWII?
We've got Inchon, obviously. A sizeable contingent of Turkish forces landed on Cyprus in 1972. There's the Falklands ten years after that...and...I'm kind of at a loss. Did the Indians ever land troops anywhere? What about the Australians? Or the Indonesians or Brits during the Confrontation?
Cyprus 1974
At least three in the Falklands;
One by the Argentines at the start of the war, coming ashore near Port Staney in their Amtraks...
Apparently one of the commander's Amtrac's outboard motors jammed which only allowed him to go in circles, so the driver had to throw it in reverse and he ended up invading the Malvinas backwards.![]()
At least three in the Falklands;
One by the Argentines at the start of the war, coming ashore near Port Staney in their Amtraks after the Buzo Tacticos raid to try and grab the Falklands' Governor ran into trouble. Covered in the fairly accurate and two-sided film An Ungentlemanly Act. See it on youtube
Two by the British - the first beng Royal Marines at San Carlos settlement, which pushed ahead under sporadic ground fire and heavy air attack, and another later on at Bluff Cove by Welsh Guards, which was a bit of a balls-up and ended up in the Bluff Cove bombing.
Edit: Sorry, didn't see you already had the Faklands on there. Did you Ninja me? (