Post-WWII Amphibious Landings

Cook

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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’m afraid the TNI had already done a pretty thorough job on Dili and the other towns of East Timor prior to the landings. I’ll see if I can dig up the old photos I took of the place, scan them and post them on here.
 
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?

Well, if the plans for Iraq (Gulf War I) had been different you might have seen some major landings there. Hard to see how though; until the Allies actually did it, no one would have believed them going in through the desert, so the threat of the Marines going in was much more useful in pinning down the Iraqis.
 

MacCaulay

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Cyprus 1974

Check the OP. I almost forgot it, though!

At least three in the Falklands;

One by the Argentines at the start of the war, coming ashore near Port Staney in their Amtraks...

There's a book that I'm blanking on the title of, but it's written specifically about the Argentine half of the war. This historian interviewed alot of soldiers, sailors, and pilots, from Admirals and Generals down to NCOs, and one of the people he interviewed was the commander of the Amtrac unit that did that landing.

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. :D
 

Cook

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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. :D

A more cynical man would suggest that the Amtrac therefore matched the Argentine High Command.
 
Not sure of the scales but I believe the Vietnamese made a coastal landing in Cambodia/Kampuchea in 1978 during their overthrow of Pol Pot.

Israel definitely did do an amphibious landing in Lebanon in 1982. Would probably have been fairly large for Israel, but not sure how it would rate on other power's scales.


Weren't there also landings by US forces in Haiti (1994/95) and/or the Dominican Republic (Power Pack)?
 
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? (

Don't forget the Argentine landings at South Georgia Island. One small platoon of Royal Marines shot down a helicopter and almost sank a frigate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grytviken
 
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