Landing operations on hostile shores
By: War Department
Series: FM -- 31-5.
Publisher: War Dept.; U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1942
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Amphibious warfare; Handbooks, manuals; Landing operations; United States. Army; United States
Notes: "June 2, 1941"--Cover.

Includes index.

"This manual is based to a large extent on Landing Operations Doctrine, U.S. Navy, 1938. The arrangement of subject matter is similar to the Navy publication and many of the illustrations are taken from it."--T.p. verso.

Superseded by FM 31-5, Landing operations on hostile shores, November 1944.

Also available online from the Internet Archive.  Address as of January 17, 2014:   https://archive.org/details/landingoperation00ward_0.
Table of contents: title: General; title: Organization for landing operations; title: Landing boats; title: Ship-to-shore movement; title: Operations on shore; title: Naval gunfire; title: Aviation; title: Signal communication; title: Field artillery, antiaircraft protection, tank and engineer units, and chemicals; title: Administration; title: Special training for landing operations; title: Appendix I. Boat nomenclature; title: Appendix II. Types of navy ships and aircraft; title: Appendix III. Small boat types; title: Appendix IV. Definitions of sea terms.