Landing operations doctrine
Subtitle: United States Navy, 1938 : F.T.P. 167
By: United States Navy, Office of Naval Operations, Division of Fleet Training
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Handbooks, manuals; Landing operations; Logistics; Amphibious warfare; United States. Navy; United States; United States. Marine Corps
Other titles: FTP 167.
Description: "FTP-167 is intended as a guide for forces of the Navy and Marine Corps conducting a landing against opposition. It considers, primarily, the tactics and technique of the landing operation and the necessary supporting measures thereof. Purely naval or military operations are dealt with only to the extent to which these operations are influenced by the special nature of amphibious warfare." -- p. 3 of Change no. 1.
Notes: Cover title.

"5 August 1938" -- page ix.

"Register no. 485" -- Title page.

Originally issued with a classification of : Confidential.

"This publication supersedes 'Tentative landing operations manual' of 1935" -- page iii.

Also includes Changes Nos. 1-3.

Table of contents from Change No. 3 (pages ix-x).

"May 2, 1941" -- Change no. 1 to FTP-167 (page iii).

"Change No. 1 to FTP-167 is a complete revision of FTP-167 except for the title page. All pages of FTP-167 (except the title page) bearing Registered Nos. 1-1500 are to be removed and destroyed by burning. Change No. 1 shall be inserted in FTP-167 bearing Registered Nos. 1-1500" -- page iii.

"August 1, 1942" -- Change no. 2 to FTP-167 (page iv).

"Change No. 2 to Landing Operations Doctrin, U.S. Navy, 1938 (FTP-167) ... has been incorporated in the following numbered pages which are transmitted herewith ... These pages will be inserted immediately on receipt, and superseded pages will be destroyed by burning, no report of destruction being required." -- page iv.

"1 August 1943" -- Change no. 3 to FTP-167 (page iv-a).

"Change No. 3 to F. T. P. 167 ... is promulgated herewith and is effective upon receipt. It is confidential and nonregistered and shall be stowed, transported and handled in accordance with the current edition of the Registered Publications manual" -- page iv-a.

Includes index.

Also available online from the Internet Archive.  Address as of February 5, 2014: https://archive.org/details/landingoperation00unit_0.
Table of contents: title: 1. Landing operations, general : Objectives of landing operations ; Forces to be employed ; Advance forces ; Main and subsidiary landings ; Beachheads ; Selection of landing areas ; Scheme of maneuver ; Comparative times of landing ; Plans and orders; title: 2. Task organizations : Organization and command ; Beach and shore parties ; Station and maneuver areas ; Coordination of operations; title: 3. Landing boats : General ; Standard Navy boats ; Special equipment for standard Navy boats ; Special Navy landing boats; title: 4. Ship to shore movement : General ; Task organizations ; Formations, frontages, and distances ; Planning ; Execution ; Reconnaissance patrols ; Boat formation signals ; Salvage operations; title: 5. Naval gunfire : Mission ; Classification of batteries and ships ; Basic organization ; Coordination of naval gunfire ; Techniques ; Naval gunfire annex ; Illustrative problem; title: 6. Aviation : General ; Aerial missions ; Aerial operations preliminary to landing ; Aerial operations during debarkation ; Aerial operations during approach to the beach ; Aerial operations during the advance inland ; Air bases ; Communications ; Requirements in bombs; title: 7. Communications : General ; Ship to shore movement ; Communication between ship and shore ; Initiation of the shore communication system; title: 8. Field artillery, tanks, chemicals, and smoke : Field artillery ; Tanks ; Chemicals ; Smoke; title: 9. Logistics : Classification of Marine Corps materiel ; Administrative plans ; Embarkation ; Transport loading ; System of supply ; Military police ; Engineers ; Medical service.