Winds, Waves, and Warriors
Subtitle: Battling the Surf at Normandy, Tarawa, and Inchon
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780807172230
Description: "Winds, Waves, and Warriors examines the oceanographic conditions that U.S. military planners considered, or should have considered, when landing troops and vehicles on the beach at three historic amphibious assaults: Normandy, Tarawa, and Inchon. Oceanographer Thomas M. Mitchell brings welcome insight into a little-studied yet extraordinary aspect of ground warfare by explaining why certain tidal and weather conditions existed at those specific places and times, and how they affected the army and marine foot soldiers fighting to get ashore"--