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** In October 1944, The U.S. began the liberation of the Philippines, staging their own amphibious assault. They pushed the Japanese out and provided yet another iconic photograph of the war when General Douglas [=MacArthur=] came ashore after the main assault, fulfilling his promise to the Philippines that he "would return". Also of interest, is the fact that, unlike other Pacific amphibious assaults, the liberation of the Philippines was handled by the U.S. Army, not the Marine Corps, due to the Philippines being much ''much'' larger than the small islands the Marines had been fighting on up to that point.
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** In October 1944, The U.S. began the liberation of the Philippines, staging their own amphibious assault. They pushed the Japanese out and provided yet another iconic photograph of the war when General Douglas [=MacArthur=] came ashore after the main assault, fulfilling his promise to the Philippines that he "would return". Also of interest, is the fact that, unlike other Pacific amphibious assaults, the liberation of the Philippines was handled exclusively by the U.S. Army, not with any help from the Marine Corps, due to the Philippines being much ''much'' larger than the small islands the Marines had been fighting on up to that point.point, as well as [=MacArthur=] himself specifically requesting that no Marines be involved in the campaign.
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** Had Operation Downfall taken place (Olympic in southern Kyushu in November 1945, Coronet in the Kanto Plain in March 1946), it would have surpassed even Overlord in the number of invading Allied troops (up to 5 million US troops and another 1 million British; in contrast there were "only" 2 million total Allied troops involved with Overlord after two months). The massive number of casualties projected from the experiences of fighting in Iwo Jima and Okinawa (1 million American, half a million British, ''ten million'' Japanese including civilians) was used to justify the UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki in order to avert this (whether the reader agrees with this assessment or not [[RuleOfCautiousEditngJudgement is beyond the scope of this page]]).
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** Had Operation Downfall taken place (Olympic in southern Kyushu in November 1945, Coronet in the Kanto Plain in March 1946), it would have surpassed even Overlord in the number of invading Allied troops (up to 5 million US troops and another 1 million British; in contrast there were "only" 2 million total Allied troops involved with Overlord after two months). The massive number of casualties projected from the experiences of fighting in Iwo Jima and Okinawa (1 million American, half a million British, ''ten million'' Japanese including civilians) was used to justify the UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki in order to avert this (whether the reader agrees with this assessment or not [[RuleOfCautiousEditngJudgement [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement is beyond the scope of this page]]).
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* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII[[UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan The Mongols]] tried to do this to the island of Kyushu, but the local Japanese armies managed to drive them out. Contrary to popular belief, the typhoon during the first invasion had only struck the Mongol forces ''after'' they had already started retreating. Then, in an amazing [[{{Pun}} second wind]], Kublai Khan came back a few years later with an even ''bigger'' force and ''[[StuffBlowingUp BOMBS]]''. They were again repelled, this time with help from the famous ''Kamikaze'' typhoon, and the Japanese having had a few years to fortify the beaches with walls, leading to the [[CurbStompBattle total annihilation of the combined Mongol/Chinese/Korean Fleet]].
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. In 1915 the Allies invaded the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey in an attempt to capture Constantinople. After eight months of hard fighting and heavy loss of life on both sides it became clear that the invasion could not succeed and the Allied forces were evacuated.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII European Theater:
** Nearly two years prior to D-Day was the ill-fated Dieppe raid in August 1942. It was meant to be a raid in strength where five thousand British and Canadian troops were landed with orders to capture and hold the port of Dieppe. It failed badly, with most of the force getting killed. Allied planners learned fortified ports should not be first-day landing objectives.
** Operation Torch, the Allied capture of Vichy French-held areas of North Africa in November 1942. The landings succeeded against weak Vichy French and Italian opposition, and dropped off a full British and American army group. The German and Italian forces found themselves squeezed from east and west because the Brits already had an army in Egypt. Add on the fact that the Royal Navy was making resupply from the north via the Mediterranean a major problem and the Sahara to the south isn't exactly accommodating to large military activity, and by early 1943 North Africa was free of Axis forces.
** The Salerno landing in September 1943 saw British and American armies make landfall in mainland Italy, against intense German opposition on the landing beaches.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. In 1915 the Allies invaded the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey in an attempt to capture Constantinople. After eight months of hard fighting and heavy loss of life on both sides it became clear that the invasion could not succeed and the Allied forces were evacuated.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII European Theater:
** Nearly two years prior to D-Day was the ill-fated Dieppe raid in August 1942. It was meant to be a raid in strength where five thousand British and Canadian troops were landed with orders to capture and hold the port of Dieppe. It failed badly, with most of the force getting killed. Allied planners learned fortified ports should not be first-day landing objectives.
** Operation Torch, the Allied capture of Vichy French-held areas of North Africa in November 1942. The landings succeeded against weak Vichy French and Italian opposition, and dropped off a full British and American army group. The German and Italian forces found themselves squeezed from east and west because the Brits already had an army in Egypt. Add on the fact that the Royal Navy was making resupply from the north via the Mediterranean a major problem and the Sahara to the south isn't exactly accommodating to large military activity, and by early 1943 North Africa was free of Axis forces.
** The Salerno landing in September 1943 saw British and American armies make landfall in mainland Italy, against intense German opposition on the landing beaches.
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** Two months after D-Day, in August 1944, the Allies launched another large-scale amphibious assault in southern France: Operation Dragoon. The mostly American force and their Free French allies (who made up the rest) plowed through the Germans. With Allied forces now advancing from both the north and south, the Germans were caught in a gigantic pincer. They began retreating, but not before 140,000 German troops were captured or killed. Which was devastating because Germany was running out of professional soldiers by this point.
** Operation Torch, the Allied capture of Vichy French-held areas of North Africa in November 1942. The landings succeeded against weak Vichy French and Italian opposition, and dropped off a full British and American army group. Like the above two examples, the German and Italian forces found themselves squeezed from two directions because the Brits already had an army in Egypt. By early 1943, North Africa was free of Axis forces.
** Nearly two years prior to D-Day, was the ill-fated Dieppe raid in August 1942. It was meant to be a raid in strength where five thousand British and Canadian troops were landed with orders to capture and hold the port of Dieppe. It failed badly, with most of the force getting killed. Allied planners learned fortified ports should not be first-day landing objectives.
** The Salerno landing in September 1943 saw British and American armies make landfall in mainland Italy, against intense German opposition on the landing beaches.
** The entire Pacific Theatre of the war (not counting the fighting in mainland China, or southeast Asia) was this. The Americans and Japanese fought tooth and nail over scores of islands, big and small, across the Pacific Ocean. Some examples...
*** The Japanese invasion of the Philippines began just hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. 100,000 Imperial Japanese troops landed on the northen end of Luzon, the largest island in the country. The American and Filipino troops under General Douglas [=MacArthur=] fought back fiercely, but were horribly outmatched. The Japanese occupied the Philippines for two and a half years until it was liberated in 1944.
*** In October 1944, The U.S. began the liberation of the Philippines, staging their own amphibious assault. They pushed the Japanese out and provided yet another iconic photograph of the war when General Douglas [=MacArthur=] came ashore after the main assault, fulfilling his promise to the Philippines that he "would return". Also of interest, is the fact that, unlike other Pacific amphibious assaults, the liberation of the Philippines was handled by the U.S. Army, not the Marine Corps, due to the Philippines being much ''much'' larger than the small islands the Marines had been fighting on up to that point.
*** The Battle of Iwo Jima is the other candidate for the most iconic amphibious assault in WorldWarII. The USMC went up against the more than 20,000 strong Japanese garrison. It proved to be the bloodiest battle of the Island Hopping Campaign for the U.S. They took more casualties than the Japanese, who were almost entirely wiped out on the island. Despite that the Americans successfully took the island and provided the world with the IwoJimaPose.
*** Following up on their success in the Battle of Midway, the Americans began the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942. There would be much bitter fighting as both sides worked to bring in seaborne reinforcements.
*** The Battle of Tarawa, another very famous amphibious assault in the Island Hopping Campaign. The U.S. Marines Corps secured Tarawa Atoll from the Japanese Marine garrison who, as was usually the case, fought almost to the last man.
** Incidentally, the only amphibious assault to be turned back at the water's edge was the first Japanese landing at Wake Island. All other amphibious operations (including Dieppe) had at least partial success in getting troops beyond the beach.
* Speaking of Japan, [[UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan the Mongols]] tried to do this to the island of Kyushu, but the local Japanese armies managed to drive them out. Contrary to popular belief, the typhoon during the first invasion had only struck the Mongol forces ''after'' they had already started retreating. Then, in an amazing [[{{Pun}} second wind]], Kublai Khan came back a few years later with an even ''bigger'' force and ''[[StuffBlowingUp BOMBS]]''. They were again repelled, this time with help from the famous ''Kamikaze'' typhoon, and the Japanese having had a few years to fortify the beaches with walls, leading to the [[CurbStompBattle total annihilation of the combined Mongol/Chinese/Korean Fleet]].
* During UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, the North Korean invasion was turned back when the UN forces under General Douglas [=MacArthur=], staged an amphibious assault on the west coast of South Korea, near the capital Seoul which was under communist control. To make it even more awesome, they landed in an area that was notoriously bad for shore landings, waiting until the tide was right before attacking. The North Koreans were not prepared for it.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. In 1915 the Allies invaded the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey in an attempt to capture Constantinople. After eight months of hard fighting and heavy loss of life on both sides it became clear that the invasion could not succeed and the Allied forces were evacuated.
** Operation Torch, the Allied capture of Vichy French-held areas of North Africa in November 1942. The landings succeeded against weak Vichy French and Italian opposition, and dropped off a full British and American army group. Like the above two examples, the German and Italian forces found themselves squeezed from two directions because the Brits already had an army in Egypt. By early 1943, North Africa was free of Axis forces.
** Nearly two years prior to D-Day, was the ill-fated Dieppe raid in August 1942. It was meant to be a raid in strength where five thousand British and Canadian troops were landed with orders to capture and hold the port of Dieppe. It failed badly, with most of the force getting killed. Allied planners learned fortified ports should not be first-day landing objectives.
** The Salerno landing in September 1943 saw British and American armies make landfall in mainland Italy, against intense German opposition on the landing beaches.
** The entire Pacific Theatre of the war (not counting the fighting in mainland China, or southeast Asia) was this. The Americans and Japanese fought tooth and nail over scores of islands, big and small, across the Pacific Ocean. Some examples...
*** The Japanese invasion of the Philippines began just hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. 100,000 Imperial Japanese troops landed on the northen end of Luzon, the largest island in the country. The American and Filipino troops under General Douglas [=MacArthur=] fought back fiercely, but were horribly outmatched. The Japanese occupied the Philippines for two and a half years until it was liberated in 1944.
*** In October 1944, The U.S. began the liberation of the Philippines, staging their own amphibious assault. They pushed the Japanese out and provided yet another iconic photograph of the war when General Douglas [=MacArthur=] came ashore after the main assault, fulfilling his promise to the Philippines that he "would return". Also of interest, is the fact that, unlike other Pacific amphibious assaults, the liberation of the Philippines was handled by the U.S. Army, not the Marine Corps, due to the Philippines being much ''much'' larger than the small islands the Marines had been fighting on up to that point.
*** The Battle of Iwo Jima is the other candidate for the most iconic amphibious assault in WorldWarII. The USMC went up against the more than 20,000 strong Japanese garrison. It proved to be the bloodiest battle of the Island Hopping Campaign for the U.S. They took more casualties than the Japanese, who were almost entirely wiped out on the island. Despite that the Americans successfully took the island and provided the world with the IwoJimaPose.
*** Following up on their success in the Battle of Midway, the Americans began the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942. There would be much bitter fighting as both sides worked to bring in seaborne reinforcements.
*** The Battle of Tarawa, another very famous amphibious assault in the Island Hopping Campaign. The U.S. Marines Corps secured Tarawa Atoll from the Japanese Marine garrison who, as was usually the case, fought almost to the last man.
** Incidentally, the only amphibious assault to be turned back at the water's edge was the first Japanese landing at Wake Island. All other amphibious operations (including Dieppe) had at least partial success in getting troops beyond the beach.
* Speaking of Japan, [[UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan the Mongols]] tried to do this to the island of Kyushu, but the local Japanese armies managed to drive them out. Contrary to popular belief, the typhoon during the first invasion had only struck the Mongol forces ''after'' they had already started retreating. Then, in an amazing [[{{Pun}} second wind]], Kublai Khan came back a few years later with an even ''bigger'' force and ''[[StuffBlowingUp BOMBS]]''. They were again repelled, this time with help from the famous ''Kamikaze'' typhoon, and the Japanese having had a few years to fortify the beaches with walls, leading to the [[CurbStompBattle total annihilation of the combined Mongol/Chinese/Korean Fleet]].
* During UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, the North Korean invasion was turned back when the UN forces under General Douglas [=MacArthur=], staged an amphibious assault on the west coast of South Korea, near the capital Seoul which was under communist control. To make it even more awesome, they landed in an area that was notoriously bad for shore landings, waiting until the tide was right before attacking. The North Koreans were not prepared for it.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. In 1915 the Allies invaded the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey in an attempt to capture Constantinople. After eight months of hard fighting and heavy loss of life on both sides it became clear that the invasion could not succeed and the Allied forces were evacuated.
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** Two months after D-Day, in August 1944, the Allies launched another large-scale amphibious assault in southern France: Operation Dragoon. The mostly American force and their Free French allies (who made up the rest) plowed through the Germans. With Allied forces now advancing from both the north and south, the Germans were caught in a gigantic pincer. They began retreating, retreating but not before 140,000 German troops were captured or killed. Which was killed, devastating for the Wehrmacht because Germany was running out of professional soldiers by this point.
** Operation Torch, the Allied capture of Vichy French-held areas of North Africa in November 1942. The landings succeeded against weak Vichy French and Italian opposition, and dropped off a full British and American army group. Like the above two examples, the German and Italian forces found themselves squeezed from two directions because the Brits already had an army in Egypt. By early 1943, North Africa was free of Axis forces.
** Nearly two years prior to D-Day, was the ill-fated Dieppe raid in August 1942. It was meant to be a raid in strength where five thousand British and Canadian troops were landed with orders to capture and hold the port of Dieppe. It failed badly, with most* Most of the force getting killed. Allied planners learned fortified ports should not be first-day landing objectives.
** The Salerno landing in September 1943 saw British and American armies make landfall in mainland Italy, against intense German opposition on the landing beaches.
** The entirePacific Theatre of the war (not counting UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (anywhere outside the fighting in mainland China, China or southeast Asia) was this. The Americans and Japanese fought tooth and nail over scores of islands, big and small, across the Pacific Ocean. Some examples...
*** ** The Japanese invasion of the Philippines began just hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. 100,000 Imperial Japanese troops landed on the northen end of Luzon, the largest island in the country. The American and Filipino troops under General Douglas [=MacArthur=] fought back fiercely, but were horribly outmatched. The Japanese occupied the Philippines for two and a half years until it was liberated in 1944.
*** ** Incidentally, the only amphibious assault to be turned back at the water's edge was the first Japanese landing at Wake Island only a few days after Pearl Harbor (a second attempt two weeks later was successful). All other amphibious operations (including Dieppe) had at least partial success in getting troops beyond the beach.
** Following up on their success in the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the Americans began the Guadalcanal campaign in November of that year. There would be much bitter fighting as both sides worked to bring in seaborne reinforcements.
** The Battle of Tarawa in 1943, another very famous amphibious assault in the Island Hopping Campaign. The U.S. Marines Corps secured Tarawa Atoll from the Japanese Marine garrison who, as was usually the case, fought almost to the last man.
** In October 1944, The U.S. began the liberation of the Philippines, staging their own amphibious assault. They pushed the Japanese out and provided yet another iconic photograph of the war when General Douglas [=MacArthur=] came ashore after the main assault, fulfilling his promise to the Philippines that he "would return". Also of interest, is the fact that, unlike other Pacific amphibious assaults, the liberation of the Philippines was handled by the U.S. Army, not the Marine Corps, due to the Philippines being much ''much'' larger than the small islands the Marines had been fighting on up to that point.
*** ** The Battle of Iwo Jima is the other candidate for the most iconic amphibious assault in WorldWarII. The USMC went up against the more than 20,000 strong Japanese garrison. It proved to be the bloodiest battle of the Island Hopping Campaign for the U.S. They took more casualties than the Japanese, who were almost entirely wiped out on the island. Despite that the Americans successfully took the island and provided the world with the IwoJimaPose.
*** Following up on their success ** Had Operation Downfall taken place (Olympic in southern Kyushu in November 1945, Coronet in the Battle of Midway, the Americans began the Guadalcanal campaign Kanto Plain in 1942. There March 1946), it would be much bitter have surpassed even Overlord in the number of invading Allied troops (up to 5 million US troops and another 1 million British; in contrast there were "only" 2 million total Allied troops involved with Overlord after two months). The massive number of casualties projected from the experiences of fighting as both sides worked to bring in seaborne reinforcements.
*** The Battle of Tarawa, another very famous amphibious assault in the Island Hopping Campaign. The U.S. Marines Corps secured Tarawa Atoll from theIwo Jima and Okinawa (1 million American, half a million British, ''ten million'' Japanese Marine garrison who, as including civilians) was usually used to justify the case, fought almost UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki in order to avert this (whether the last man.
** Incidentally, the only amphibious assault to be turned back at the water's edge was the first Japanese landing at Wake Island. All other amphibious operations (including Dieppe) had at least partial success in getting troopsreader agrees with this assessment or not [[RuleOfCautiousEditngJudgement is beyond the beach.
* Speakingscope of Japan, [[UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan the Mongols]] tried to do this to the island of Kyushu, but the local Japanese armies managed to drive them out. Contrary to popular belief, the typhoon during the first invasion had only struck the Mongol forces ''after'' they had already started retreating. Then, in an amazing [[{{Pun}} second wind]], Kublai Khan came back a few years later with an even ''bigger'' force and ''[[StuffBlowingUp BOMBS]]''. They were again repelled, this time with help from the famous ''Kamikaze'' typhoon, and the Japanese having had a few years to fortify the beaches with walls, leading to the [[CurbStompBattle total annihilation of the combined Mongol/Chinese/Korean Fleet]].
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* During UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, the North Korean invasion was turned back when the UN forces under General Douglas [=MacArthur=], staged an amphibious assault on the west coast of SouthKorea, Korea near Incheon, near the capital Seoul which was under communist control. To make it even more awesome, they landed in an area that was notoriously bad for shore landings, landings (among other things, the area tends to get muddy and ships risked getting stuck), waiting until the tide was right before attacking. The North Koreans were not prepared for it.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. In 1915it, as the Allies invaded bulk of the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey in an attempt to capture Constantinople. After eight months of hard fighting and heavy loss of life on both sides it became clear that KPA was at the invasion could not succeed and Pusan Perimeter trying to take out the Allied forces were evacuated.last UN hold on the peninsula.
** Nearly two years prior to D-Day, was the ill-fated Dieppe raid in August 1942. It was meant to be a raid in strength where five thousand British and Canadian troops were landed with orders to capture and hold the port of Dieppe. It failed badly, with most
** The Salerno landing in September 1943 saw British and American armies make landfall in mainland Italy, against intense German opposition on the landing beaches.
** The entire
** Following up on their success in the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the Americans began the Guadalcanal campaign in November of that year. There would be much bitter fighting as both sides worked to bring in seaborne reinforcements.
** The Battle of Tarawa in 1943, another very famous amphibious assault in the Island Hopping Campaign. The U.S. Marines Corps secured Tarawa Atoll from the Japanese Marine garrison who, as was usually the case, fought almost to the last man.
** In October 1944, The U.S. began the liberation of the Philippines, staging their own amphibious assault. They pushed the Japanese out and provided yet another iconic photograph of the war when General Douglas [=MacArthur=] came ashore after the main assault, fulfilling his promise to the Philippines that he "would return". Also of interest, is the fact that, unlike other Pacific amphibious assaults, the liberation of the Philippines was handled by the U.S. Army, not the Marine Corps, due to the Philippines being much ''much'' larger than the small islands the Marines had been fighting on up to that point.
*** The Battle of Tarawa, another very famous amphibious assault in the Island Hopping Campaign. The U.S. Marines Corps secured Tarawa Atoll from the
** Incidentally, the only amphibious assault to be turned back at the water's edge was the first Japanese landing at Wake Island. All other amphibious operations (including Dieppe) had at least partial success in getting troops
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* During UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, the North Korean invasion was turned back when the UN forces under General Douglas [=MacArthur=], staged an amphibious assault on the west coast of South
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. In 1915
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** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'': The first Allied mission is defending the British coastline against such an attack by the Soviets.
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** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'': The Several in the ''Red Alert'' games (both initiating and defending against) with that series' additional emphasis on naval combat compared to the ''Tiberium'' line (all the naval power is in GDI hands, so Nod can't really do these). In ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3 3]]'', for example, the first Allied mission is defending the British coastline against such an attack by the Soviets.
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** The Normandy landings of Operation Overlord on June 6th, 1944 are the most famous, and largest, real life example to this day. The Allies invaded Nazi-held France across the English Channel. The Americans landed at Omaha and Utah Beaches, the British at Sword and Gold, and the Canadians at Juno. Of these five beaches Omaha is the most well-known because it was the most difficult, with the Americans suffering heavy casualties before finally breaking out.
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** The Normandy landings of Operation Overlord on June 6th, 1944 are the most famous, and largest, real life example to this day. The Allies invaded Nazi-held France across the English Channel. The Americans landed at Omaha and Utah Beaches, the British at Sword and Gold, and the Canadians at Juno. Of these five beaches Omaha is the most well-known because it was the most difficult, with the Americans suffering heavy casualties before finally breaking out.through.
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* Speaking of Japan, [[UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan the Mongols]] tried to do this to the island of Kyushu, but the local Japanese armies managed to drive them out. Contrary to popular belief, the typhoon during the first invasion had only struck the Mongol forces ''after'' they had already started retreating. Then, in an amazing [[SecondWind Second]] [[{{Pun}} Wind]], Kublai Khan came back a few years later with an even ''bigger'' force and ''[[StuffBlowingUp BOMBS]]''. They were again repelled, this time with help from the famous ''Kamikaze'' typhoon, and the Japanese having had a few years to fortify the beaches with walls, leading to the [[CurbStompBattle total annihilation of the combined Mongol/Chinese/Korean Fleet]].
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* Speaking of Japan, [[UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan the Mongols]] tried to do this to the island of Kyushu, but the local Japanese armies managed to drive them out. Contrary to popular belief, the typhoon during the first invasion had only struck the Mongol forces ''after'' they had already started retreating. Then, in an amazing [[SecondWind Second]] [[{{Pun}} Wind]], second wind]], Kublai Khan came back a few years later with an even ''bigger'' force and ''[[StuffBlowingUp BOMBS]]''. They were again repelled, this time with help from the famous ''Kamikaze'' typhoon, and the Japanese having had a few years to fortify the beaches with walls, leading to the [[CurbStompBattle total annihilation of the combined Mongol/Chinese/Korean Fleet]].
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* Speaking of Japan, [[UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan the Mongols]] tried to do this to the island of Kyushu, but the local Japanese armies managed to drive them out. Contrary to popular belief, the typhoon during the first invasion had only struck the Mongol forces ''after'' they had already started retreating. Then, in an amazing [[SecondWind Second]] [[{{Pun}} Wind]], Kublai Khan came back a few years later with an even ''bigger'' force. They were again repelled, this time with help from the famous ''Kamikaze'' typhoon, and the Japanese having had a few years to fortify the beaches with walls, leading to the [[CurbStompBattle annihilation of the combined Mongol/Chinese/Korean Fleet]].
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* Speaking of Japan, [[UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan the Mongols]] tried to do this to the island of Kyushu, but the local Japanese armies managed to drive them out. Contrary to popular belief, the typhoon during the first invasion had only struck the Mongol forces ''after'' they had already started retreating. Then, in an amazing [[SecondWind Second]] [[{{Pun}} Wind]], Kublai Khan came back a few years later with an even ''bigger'' force. force and ''[[StuffBlowingUp BOMBS]]''. They were again repelled, this time with help from the famous ''Kamikaze'' typhoon, and the Japanese having had a few years to fortify the beaches with walls, leading to the [[CurbStompBattle total annihilation of the combined Mongol/Chinese/Korean Fleet]].
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* Speaking of Japan, [[UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan the Mongols]] tried to do this to the island of Kyushu, but the local Japanese armies managed to drive them out. Contrary to popular belief, the typhoon during the first invasion had only struck the Mongol forces ''after'' they had already started retreating. Then, in an amazing [[SecondWind Second]] [[{{Pun}} Wind]], Kublai Khan came back a few years later with an even ''bigger'' force. They were again repelled, this time with help from the famous ''Kamikaze'' typhoon, and the Japanese having had a few years to fortify the beaches with walls, leading to the [[CurbStompBattle annihilation of the combined Mongol/Chinese/Korean Fleet]].
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* Doable in ''VideoGame/TotalWar:Rome II'' when attacking coastal towns from the sea. Your men will spawn in weak transports and have to land in and around the town. They will also have to get past harbour defenses in cities and naval garrisons.
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* Doable in ''VideoGame/TotalWar:Rome II'' ''VideoGame/TotalWarRomeII'' when attacking coastal towns from the sea. Your men will spawn in weak transports and have to land in and around the town. They will also have to get past harbour defenses in cities and naval garrisons.
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* The ''VideoGame/Battlefield1'' War Story: "The Runner" has the player storming the beaches of Gallipoli in it's first mission.
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* Possible but risky in ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings''. Your army will take serious environmental penalties for landing in a hostile province when an enemy army is present. The second game compounds this with the fact your {{morale|Mechanic}} will be capped at 50% after the sea voyage. However, landing in a friendly province, or one you previously occupied in the same war, does not apply the penalties even if hostile troops are present.
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* The original ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'' first had you rescue an Allied operative in North Africa, with the two of you then lighting a signal for the Allied fleet offshore to begin Operation Torch. One of its sequels, ''Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault'', featured Omaha Beach as one of the most marketed missions, and one of the hardest if you don't know how to avoid the machine gun fire. ''Medal Of Honor: Frontline'', starts with the main character storming the very same beach at Normandy in a more polished sequence that might as well be direct from ''Ryan''.
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* ''EdgeOfTomorrow'' features an amphibious assault on alien-controlled Normandy beaches. The humans invade with helicopter dropships, hovercraft, and even landing boats.
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* No matter what age in ''VideoGame/RiseOfNations'', all ground units turn into landing craft when moving over water and convert back into tanks or infantry when they hit the beach. If you are in the "Conquer the World" campaign and are invading across an ocean, you will start off with just transports carrying your invasion army.
* No matter what age in ''VideoGame/RiseOfNations'', all ground units turn into landing craft when moving over water and convert back into tanks or infantry when they hit the beach. If you are in the "Conquer the World" campaign and are invading across an ocean, you will start off with just transports carrying your invasion army.
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* Unlike the original novel, ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' features the Mobile Infantry landing on Klendathu in dropships which are very much inspired by World War II landing craft.
* Unlike the original novel, ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' features the Mobile Infantry landing on Klendathu in dropships which are very much inspired by World War II landing craft.
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* During the Korean War, the North Korean invasion was turned back when the UN forces under General Douglas [=MacArthur=], staged an amphibious assault on the west coast of South Korea, near the capital Seoul which was under communist control. To make it even more awesome, they landed in an area that was notoriously bad for shore landings, waiting until the tide was right before attacking. The North Koreans were not prepared for it.
* WorldWarI. In 1915 the Allies invaded the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey in an attempt to capture Constantinople. After eight months of hard fighting and heavy loss of life on both sides it became clear that the invasion could not succeed and the Allied forces were evacuated.
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So what's the next move? An amphibious assault, of course! Load your boys up on boats, hovercraft, water-tight armored trucks, or whatever sea-worthy transportation you've got lying around and send them to [[TitleDrop storm the beaches]].
The iconic RealLife examples of this trope made famous during a little dust-up known as WorldWarII secured the image of an army invading an enemy-held shore in the public consciousness and inspired the use of amphibious attacks in all kinds of military- and war-related works. But this kind of warfare is of course much older than that. Ever since humans learned how to build boats, they've been using them to get the drop on their enemies -- just ask those HornyVikings.
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* AvatarTheLastAirbender had a submarine attack, with airbenders and waterbenders working in concert to move a small fleet of earthbender-powered tanks past the Fire Nation's defenses and surfacing to attack, all during the short time the firebenders would be powerless. However, it turned out to be an EmptyFortGambit, with the heroes barely escaping with their lives and leaving their parents captive.
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->''"Keep the sand out of those weapons! Keep those actions clear! I'll see you on the beach!"''
-->-- Captain John H. Miller, ''SavingPrivateRyan''
So you've got your troops and you're ready to take the fight to the enemy. The men are pumped, the tanks are fueled, and it's time to ''win'' this war.
There's a problem, though. The enemy is sitting on the other side of a sizable body of water. It may be a large river, a lake, or even an entire ocean. The bottom line is that you can only get to where you need to be if you deal with the water hazard first.
So what's the next move? An amphibious assault, of course! Load your boys up on boats, hovercraft, water-tight armored trucks, or whatever sea-worthy transportation you've got lying around and send them to [[TitleDrop storm the beaches]].
The iconic RealLife examples of this trope made famous during a little dust-up known as WorldWarII secured the image of an army invading an enemy-held shore in the public consciousness and inspired the use of amphibious attacks in all kinds of military- and war-related works. But this kind of warfare is of course much older than that. Ever since humans learned how to build boats, they've been using them to get the drop on their enemies -- just ask those HornyVikings.
How well this tactic works varies wildly. If the enemy does not expect an attack from the water, the invaders will have an amazing advantage. However, in most cases you can look forward to a protracted battle for the beach! The goal is to get boots on the ground, establish a beachhead, and then bring in as many reinforcements as possible as ''fast'' as possible in order to advance into enemy territory.
For times when the invading force decides to go by air instead, see ItsRainingMen.
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* Used as an allegory in the ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' episode "Pulp Addiction" for sperm cells trying to attain the cervix. Their biggest adversary is General Scott: tissues that blot them up before they can secure a beachhead near the vulva.
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*In the French comic ''ComicBook/{{Yiu}}'', it's mentioned that Australia was the last country to hold out against the worldwide apocalypse, finally succumbing to massive naval invasions from the rest of the world.
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* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''. During the pirates' attack on Port Royal, they send some of the crew on boats to assault and loot the town.
* ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' begins on D-Day at Omaha Beach, and it does not shy away from just how brutal it was. The mission to save the titular soldier begins after the troops have cleared the beach and begun moving inland.
* The 2010 Robin Hood movie (directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe) had a storming-the-beach scene many felt was influenced by the then-recent Saving Private Ryan.
* One sequence in ''Film/RedTails'' has the Tuskeegee Airmen assigned to provide air cover to an amphibious landing.
* ''Film/TheReturnOfTheKing'' had Orcs making an amphibious landing at Osgiliath using barges that looked like medieval versions of the D-Day landing craft.
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* ''Literature/RedStormRising''. As WorldWarIII gets under way, the Soviets land in Iceland and quickly overpower the American defense force on the island. Then later, a joint British-American task force retakes the island from the Soviets.
* In ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'', the tide of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields is turned by Aragorn bringing in reinforcements upon a fleet of captured enemy ships (the movie changes it to ghosts).
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* Played for laughs on ''Series/TopGear''. While doing a "serious" test of the Ford Fiesta, Jeremy asks if it can be used in an amphibious assault. We then see him doing just that.
* In ''Series/{{Vikings}}'' this tends to be subverted as the Viking landings are usually unopposed since the defenders don't have the time to assemble a force big enough to stop them. On one occasion they have to storm the beaches the other way since a Saxon force blocks them from their ship. This is played straight when the Vikings sail up-river to invade Mercia. The Mercian commander decides to oppose their landing by splitting his army and defending both sides of the river. Ragnar simply choose the side of the river with fewer defenders and sails his ships right for the river bank. The Vikings storm the river bank and quickly rout the defenders while the Saxon force on the other side of the river watches helplessly.
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* The D-Day Series of war games by John H. Butterfield simulates some of the nastier amphibious assaults of World War 2. Games in the series include ''D-Day at Omaha Beach'', ''D-Day at Peleliu'', ''D-Day at Tarawa'' and ''Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, August 1942''.
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* A staple in the ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' series: in pretty much every game, there is a mission where you provide close air support to amphibious troops attempting to establish a beachhead on enemy territory. To name a few specific examples: "Operation Bunker Shot" in ''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'', "Lit Fuse/Operation Footprint" in ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'', "Anea Landing" in ''VideoGame/AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation'', "Pipeline" in ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'', etc.
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** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianDawn'': The first mission has GDI landing troops on a Nod fortified beach to establish a base, with fire support being provided by a nearby gunboat.
** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'': The first Allied mission is defending the British coastline against such an attack by the Soviets.
* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay''. Conker joins up with the Squirrel High Command in its war against the Tediz. He joins a force of Squirrel troops who must capture an enemy beach and attack a large stronghold. They even wear American WorldWarII uniforms. The scene where Conker stands on the beach watching in absolute horror as his fellow squirrels are cut down all around him is one of the very few serious moments in what is otherwise a hilarious comedic game. The player (as Conker) must then charge up the beach while ducking behind cover to avoid machine gun fire.
* The Avalon Hill Game Company's ''D-Day: America Invades'', which covers the Allied invasion at Normandy during WorldWarII. It has three scenarios covering the Omaha Beach landings, a combined Utah/Omaha campaign game and the Operation Cobra breakout.
* The first story mission in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' has [=SeeD=] storm the beaches at Dollet to drive out Galbadian forces.
* The original ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'' first had you rescue an Allied operative in North Africa, with the two of you then lighting a signal for the Allied fleet offshore to begin Operation Torch. Then later in the game Lt. Powell (the player character) is transferred to a regular Army unit because of his vast experience....to take part in the Normandy landings at Omaha Beach.
* One level of ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 3'' has the player taking part in an amphibious landing against the Russians.
* In Chapter 3 of ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' Welkin's unit is ordered to retake the critical Great Vasel Bridge from the East Europan army. A frontal assault on the near bank would be suicide, so [[CrazyEnoughToWork Welkin has his tank waterproofed and literally drives it underwater across the riverbed to the far side]], securing a beachhead for the rest of the squad to follow in boats.
* The expansion pack ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII: The Frozen Throne'' introduced the naga race to the game, who are amphibious SnakePeople, playable in a few quests during the campaigns. As one of the very few units in the game that can move in water, attacking from the sea is among their preferred battle tactics.
* One ''[[VideoGame/{{Worms}} Worms3D]]'' level recreates D-Day [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RpMfm6ZR0g by having you take out a team of German worms on a beach fortification,]] complete with vast fleet of ships in the distance (it's actually possible to go towards them, but they're not solid and the worm sinks immediately.
* ''VideoGame/WorldInConflict'' is loaded with this.
** At the start of the game, the Soviets launch a surprise invasion of the United States by loading up their troops on disguised cargo ships and sneaking them into Washington State, past the U.S. Navy. They quickly overrun Seattle and Tacoma and spread out inland as the Americans, who have most of their troops in Europe, struggle to stop them.
** During the flashback missions that showcase the fighting in Europe before the Seattle invasion, the Soviets had destroyed much of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, then followed up on it by staging an amphibious invasion of southern France in an attempt to open a second front as they had been stalemated in West Germany.
** One Soviet mission features a raid on a Norwegian air defense station. To get to it the Soviets must land the troops on a cold, snow-covered Norwegian beach in the most unique way. They use massive Ekranoplanes (basically huge seaplanes, which they in fact had prototypes of in RealLife). The planes land in the water then race towards the beach at high speed while firing rockets to weaken the Norwegian defenses. The planes' cockpits then slide open and unleash the Soviet strike force.
** The mission in New York City features Spetsnaz commandos taking over Liberty, Ellis, and Governor's Islands and capturing some U.S. vehicles, including amphibious transports which they use to send reinforcements to Ellis when the Americans move in to rescue the hostages. The U.S. Army Rangers have to stage amphibious assaults of their own to retake the islands.
** Just before the U.S. launches the operation to liberate Seattle, they send troops to retake a group of Islands in the Puget Sound to capture Soviet anti-ship missile batteries for use against the Chinese invasion fleet that's heading to Seattle to reinforce the Soviets.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': The Strand of the Ancients battleground has Alliance and Horde forces storming a beach in Northrend to seize control of a Titan relic that the opposing faction possesses.
** The Kvaldir are a group of mysterious Valkyr warriors who appear from the sea in mists and attack several coastal settlements. Basically, Azeroth's version of [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Vikings]].
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* AvatarTheLastAirbender had a submarine attack, with airbenders and waterbenders working in concert to move a small fleet of earthbender-powered tanks past the Fire Nation's defenses and surfacing to attack, all during the short time the firebenders would be powerless. However, it turned out to be an EmptyFortGambit, with the heroes barely escaping with their lives and leaving their parents captive.
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* WorldWarII
** The Normandy landings of Operation Overlord on June 6th, 1944 are the most famous, and largest, real life example to this day. The Allies invaded Nazi-held France across the English Channel. The Americans landed at Omaha and Utah Beaches, the British at Sword and Gold, and the Canadians at Juno. Of these five beaches Omaha is the most well-known because it was the most difficult, with the Americans suffering heavy casualties before finally breaking out.
** Two months after D-Day, in August 1944, the Allies launched another large-scale amphibious assault in southern France: Operation Dragoon. The mostly American force and their Free French allies (who made up the rest) plowed through the Germans. With Allied forces now advancing from both the north and south, the Germans were caught in a gigantic pincer. They began retreating, but not before 140,000 German troops were captured or killed. Which was devastating because Germany was running out of professional soldiers by this point.
** Operation Torch, the Allied capture of Vichy French-held areas of North Africa in November 1942. The landings succeeded against weak Vichy French and Italian opposition, and dropped off a full British and American army group. Like the above two examples, the German and Italian forces found themselves squeezed from two directions because the Brits already had an army in Egypt. By early 1943, North Africa was free of Axis forces.
** Nearly two years prior to D-Day, was the ill-fated Dieppe raid in August 1942. It was meant to be a raid in strength where five thousand British and Canadian troops were landed with orders to capture and hold the port of Dieppe. It failed badly, with most of the force getting killed. Allied planners learned fortified ports should not be first-day landing objectives.
** The Salerno landing in September 1943 saw British and American armies make landfall in mainland Italy, against intense German opposition on the landing beaches.
** The entire Pacific Theatre of the war (not counting the fighting in mainland China, or southeast Asia) was this. The Americans and Japanese fought tooth and nail over scores of islands, big and small, across the Pacific Ocean. Some examples...
*** The Japanese invasion of the Philippines began just hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. 100,000 Imperial Japanese troops landed on the northen end of Luzon, the largest island in the country. The American and Filipino troops under General Douglas [=MacArthur=] fought back fiercely, but were horribly outmatched. The Japanese occupied the Philippines for two and a half years until it was liberated in 1944.
*** In October 1944, The U.S. began the liberation of the Philippines, staging their own amphibious assault. They pushed the Japanese out and provided yet another iconic photograph of the war when General Douglas [=MacArthur=] came ashore after the main assault, fulfilling his promise to the Philippines that he "would return". Also of interest, is the fact that, unlike other Pacific amphibious assaults, the liberation of the Philippines was handled by the U.S. Army, not the Marine Corps, due to the Philippines being much ''much'' larger than the small islands the Marines had been fighting on up to that point.
*** The Battle of Iwo Jima is the other candidate for the most iconic amphibious assault in WorldWarII. The USMC went up against the more than 20,000 strong Japanese garrison. It proved to be the bloodiest battle of the Island Hopping Campaign for the U.S. They took more casualties than the Japanese, who were almost entirely wiped out on the island. Despite that the Americans successfully took the island and provided the world with the IwoJimaPose.
*** Following up on their success in the Battle of Midway, the Americans began the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942. There would be much bitter fighting as both sides worked to bring in seaborne reinforcements.
*** The Battle of Tarawa, another very famous amphibious assault in the Island Hopping Campaign. The U.S. Marines Corps secured Tarawa Atoll from the Japanese Marine garrison who, as was usually the case, fought almost to the last man.
* During the Korean War, the North Korean invasion was turned back when the UN forces under General Douglas [=MacArthur=], staged an amphibious assault on the west coast of South Korea, near the capital Seoul which was under communist control. To make it even more awesome, they landed in an area that was notoriously bad for shore landings, waiting until the tide was right before attacking. The North Koreans were not prepared for it.
* WorldWarI. In 1915 the Allies invaded the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey in an attempt to capture Constantinople. After eight months of hard fighting and heavy loss of life on both sides it became clear that the invasion could not succeed and the Allied forces were evacuated.
* Famously averted in the first GulfWar. The Coalition positioned naval forces off the coast of occupied Kuwait to fool the Iraqis into thinking they would launch a huge amphibious assault. Saddam Hussein took the bait, and suddenly found himself under attack from land-based Coalition forces in the southwest instead.
[[caption-width-right:350:Once more unto the beach........]]
->''"Keep the sand out of those weapons! Keep those actions clear! I'll see you on the beach!"''
-->-- Captain John H. Miller, ''SavingPrivateRyan''
So you've got your troops and you're ready to take the fight to the enemy. The men are pumped, the tanks are fueled, and it's time to ''win'' this war.
There's a problem, though. The enemy is sitting on the other side of a sizable body of water. It may be a large river, a lake, or even an entire ocean. The bottom line is that you can only get to where you need to be if you deal with the water hazard first.
So what's the next move? An amphibious assault, of course! Load your boys up on boats, hovercraft, water-tight armored trucks, or whatever sea-worthy transportation you've got lying around and send them to [[TitleDrop storm the beaches]].
The iconic RealLife examples of this trope made famous during a little dust-up known as WorldWarII secured the image of an army invading an enemy-held shore in the public consciousness and inspired the use of amphibious attacks in all kinds of military- and war-related works. But this kind of warfare is of course much older than that. Ever since humans learned how to build boats, they've been using them to get the drop on their enemies -- just ask those HornyVikings.
How well this tactic works varies wildly. If the enemy does not expect an attack from the water, the invaders will have an amazing advantage. However, in most cases you can look forward to a protracted battle for the beach! The goal is to get boots on the ground, establish a beachhead, and then bring in as many reinforcements as possible as ''fast'' as possible in order to advance into enemy territory.
For times when the invading force decides to go by air instead, see ItsRainingMen.
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!!Examples
[[AC:AnimeAndManga]]
* Used as an allegory in the ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' episode "Pulp Addiction" for sperm cells trying to attain the cervix. Their biggest adversary is General Scott: tissues that blot them up before they can secure a beachhead near the vulva.
[[AC:Comic Books]]
*In the French comic ''ComicBook/{{Yiu}}'', it's mentioned that Australia was the last country to hold out against the worldwide apocalypse, finally succumbing to massive naval invasions from the rest of the world.
[[AC:Film]]
* ''Film/TheLongestDay''. It's a movie all about D-Day, so naturally it features tons of scenes from the 5 different beaches the Allies landed on.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''. During the pirates' attack on Port Royal, they send some of the crew on boats to assault and loot the town.
* ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' begins on D-Day at Omaha Beach, and it does not shy away from just how brutal it was. The mission to save the titular soldier begins after the troops have cleared the beach and begun moving inland.
* The 2010 Robin Hood movie (directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe) had a storming-the-beach scene many felt was influenced by the then-recent Saving Private Ryan.
* One sequence in ''Film/RedTails'' has the Tuskeegee Airmen assigned to provide air cover to an amphibious landing.
* ''Film/TheReturnOfTheKing'' had Orcs making an amphibious landing at Osgiliath using barges that looked like medieval versions of the D-Day landing craft.
[[AC:Literature]]
* ''Literature/RedStormRising''. As WorldWarIII gets under way, the Soviets land in Iceland and quickly overpower the American defense force on the island. Then later, a joint British-American task force retakes the island from the Soviets.
* In ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'', the tide of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields is turned by Aragorn bringing in reinforcements upon a fleet of captured enemy ships (the movie changes it to ghosts).
[[AC:Live-Action Television]]
* Played for laughs on ''Series/TopGear''. While doing a "serious" test of the Ford Fiesta, Jeremy asks if it can be used in an amphibious assault. We then see him doing just that.
* In ''Series/{{Vikings}}'' this tends to be subverted as the Viking landings are usually unopposed since the defenders don't have the time to assemble a force big enough to stop them. On one occasion they have to storm the beaches the other way since a Saxon force blocks them from their ship. This is played straight when the Vikings sail up-river to invade Mercia. The Mercian commander decides to oppose their landing by splitting his army and defending both sides of the river. Ragnar simply choose the side of the river with fewer defenders and sails his ships right for the river bank. The Vikings storm the river bank and quickly rout the defenders while the Saxon force on the other side of the river watches helplessly.
[[AC:TabletopGames]]
* Some Avalon Hill war games in which amphibious invasions are the focus of the game: ''TabletopGame/AdvancedSquadLeader'' Module 9 ''Gung Ho!'', ''Air Assault on Crete/Invasion of Malta'', ''Anzio'', ''Breakout: Normandy'', ''D-Day'', ''Fortress Europa'' and ''The Longest Day''.
* The D-Day Series of war games by John H. Butterfield simulates some of the nastier amphibious assaults of World War 2. Games in the series include ''D-Day at Omaha Beach'', ''D-Day at Peleliu'', ''D-Day at Tarawa'' and ''Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, August 1942''.
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* A staple in the ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' series: in pretty much every game, there is a mission where you provide close air support to amphibious troops attempting to establish a beachhead on enemy territory. To name a few specific examples: "Operation Bunker Shot" in ''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'', "Lit Fuse/Operation Footprint" in ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'', "Anea Landing" in ''VideoGame/AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation'', "Pipeline" in ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'', etc.
* ''Franchise/CommandAndConquer'':
** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianDawn'': The first mission has GDI landing troops on a Nod fortified beach to establish a base, with fire support being provided by a nearby gunboat.
** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'': The first Allied mission is defending the British coastline against such an attack by the Soviets.
* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay''. Conker joins up with the Squirrel High Command in its war against the Tediz. He joins a force of Squirrel troops who must capture an enemy beach and attack a large stronghold. They even wear American WorldWarII uniforms. The scene where Conker stands on the beach watching in absolute horror as his fellow squirrels are cut down all around him is one of the very few serious moments in what is otherwise a hilarious comedic game. The player (as Conker) must then charge up the beach while ducking behind cover to avoid machine gun fire.
* The Avalon Hill Game Company's ''D-Day: America Invades'', which covers the Allied invasion at Normandy during WorldWarII. It has three scenarios covering the Omaha Beach landings, a combined Utah/Omaha campaign game and the Operation Cobra breakout.
* The first story mission in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' has [=SeeD=] storm the beaches at Dollet to drive out Galbadian forces.
* The original ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'' first had you rescue an Allied operative in North Africa, with the two of you then lighting a signal for the Allied fleet offshore to begin Operation Torch. Then later in the game Lt. Powell (the player character) is transferred to a regular Army unit because of his vast experience....to take part in the Normandy landings at Omaha Beach.
* One level of ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 3'' has the player taking part in an amphibious landing against the Russians.
* In Chapter 3 of ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' Welkin's unit is ordered to retake the critical Great Vasel Bridge from the East Europan army. A frontal assault on the near bank would be suicide, so [[CrazyEnoughToWork Welkin has his tank waterproofed and literally drives it underwater across the riverbed to the far side]], securing a beachhead for the rest of the squad to follow in boats.
* The expansion pack ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII: The Frozen Throne'' introduced the naga race to the game, who are amphibious SnakePeople, playable in a few quests during the campaigns. As one of the very few units in the game that can move in water, attacking from the sea is among their preferred battle tactics.
* One ''[[VideoGame/{{Worms}} Worms3D]]'' level recreates D-Day [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RpMfm6ZR0g by having you take out a team of German worms on a beach fortification,]] complete with vast fleet of ships in the distance (it's actually possible to go towards them, but they're not solid and the worm sinks immediately.
* ''VideoGame/WorldInConflict'' is loaded with this.
** At the start of the game, the Soviets launch a surprise invasion of the United States by loading up their troops on disguised cargo ships and sneaking them into Washington State, past the U.S. Navy. They quickly overrun Seattle and Tacoma and spread out inland as the Americans, who have most of their troops in Europe, struggle to stop them.
** During the flashback missions that showcase the fighting in Europe before the Seattle invasion, the Soviets had destroyed much of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, then followed up on it by staging an amphibious invasion of southern France in an attempt to open a second front as they had been stalemated in West Germany.
** One Soviet mission features a raid on a Norwegian air defense station. To get to it the Soviets must land the troops on a cold, snow-covered Norwegian beach in the most unique way. They use massive Ekranoplanes (basically huge seaplanes, which they in fact had prototypes of in RealLife). The planes land in the water then race towards the beach at high speed while firing rockets to weaken the Norwegian defenses. The planes' cockpits then slide open and unleash the Soviet strike force.
** The mission in New York City features Spetsnaz commandos taking over Liberty, Ellis, and Governor's Islands and capturing some U.S. vehicles, including amphibious transports which they use to send reinforcements to Ellis when the Americans move in to rescue the hostages. The U.S. Army Rangers have to stage amphibious assaults of their own to retake the islands.
** Just before the U.S. launches the operation to liberate Seattle, they send troops to retake a group of Islands in the Puget Sound to capture Soviet anti-ship missile batteries for use against the Chinese invasion fleet that's heading to Seattle to reinforce the Soviets.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': The Strand of the Ancients battleground has Alliance and Horde forces storming a beach in Northrend to seize control of a Titan relic that the opposing faction possesses.
** The Kvaldir are a group of mysterious Valkyr warriors who appear from the sea in mists and attack several coastal settlements. Basically, Azeroth's version of [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Vikings]].
[[AC:WebGames]]
* Armor Games' ''Warfare 1944''. The first game of a new campaign and one of the custom games are a limited version of the D-Day invasion. Depending on your side (American or German) you are either invading or defending against the invasion, respectively.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''GIJoeARealAmericanHero''. Both the Joes and Cobra make use of this fairly often, especially if their are islands in the equation.
* AvatarTheLastAirbender had a submarine attack, with airbenders and waterbenders working in concert to move a small fleet of earthbender-powered tanks past the Fire Nation's defenses and surfacing to attack, all during the short time the firebenders would be powerless. However, it turned out to be an EmptyFortGambit, with the heroes barely escaping with their lives and leaving their parents captive.
[[AC:RealLife]]
* WorldWarII
** The Normandy landings of Operation Overlord on June 6th, 1944 are the most famous, and largest, real life example to this day. The Allies invaded Nazi-held France across the English Channel. The Americans landed at Omaha and Utah Beaches, the British at Sword and Gold, and the Canadians at Juno. Of these five beaches Omaha is the most well-known because it was the most difficult, with the Americans suffering heavy casualties before finally breaking out.
** Two months after D-Day, in August 1944, the Allies launched another large-scale amphibious assault in southern France: Operation Dragoon. The mostly American force and their Free French allies (who made up the rest) plowed through the Germans. With Allied forces now advancing from both the north and south, the Germans were caught in a gigantic pincer. They began retreating, but not before 140,000 German troops were captured or killed. Which was devastating because Germany was running out of professional soldiers by this point.
** Operation Torch, the Allied capture of Vichy French-held areas of North Africa in November 1942. The landings succeeded against weak Vichy French and Italian opposition, and dropped off a full British and American army group. Like the above two examples, the German and Italian forces found themselves squeezed from two directions because the Brits already had an army in Egypt. By early 1943, North Africa was free of Axis forces.
** Nearly two years prior to D-Day, was the ill-fated Dieppe raid in August 1942. It was meant to be a raid in strength where five thousand British and Canadian troops were landed with orders to capture and hold the port of Dieppe. It failed badly, with most of the force getting killed. Allied planners learned fortified ports should not be first-day landing objectives.
** The Salerno landing in September 1943 saw British and American armies make landfall in mainland Italy, against intense German opposition on the landing beaches.
** The entire Pacific Theatre of the war (not counting the fighting in mainland China, or southeast Asia) was this. The Americans and Japanese fought tooth and nail over scores of islands, big and small, across the Pacific Ocean. Some examples...
*** The Japanese invasion of the Philippines began just hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. 100,000 Imperial Japanese troops landed on the northen end of Luzon, the largest island in the country. The American and Filipino troops under General Douglas [=MacArthur=] fought back fiercely, but were horribly outmatched. The Japanese occupied the Philippines for two and a half years until it was liberated in 1944.
*** In October 1944, The U.S. began the liberation of the Philippines, staging their own amphibious assault. They pushed the Japanese out and provided yet another iconic photograph of the war when General Douglas [=MacArthur=] came ashore after the main assault, fulfilling his promise to the Philippines that he "would return". Also of interest, is the fact that, unlike other Pacific amphibious assaults, the liberation of the Philippines was handled by the U.S. Army, not the Marine Corps, due to the Philippines being much ''much'' larger than the small islands the Marines had been fighting on up to that point.
*** The Battle of Iwo Jima is the other candidate for the most iconic amphibious assault in WorldWarII. The USMC went up against the more than 20,000 strong Japanese garrison. It proved to be the bloodiest battle of the Island Hopping Campaign for the U.S. They took more casualties than the Japanese, who were almost entirely wiped out on the island. Despite that the Americans successfully took the island and provided the world with the IwoJimaPose.
*** Following up on their success in the Battle of Midway, the Americans began the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942. There would be much bitter fighting as both sides worked to bring in seaborne reinforcements.
*** The Battle of Tarawa, another very famous amphibious assault in the Island Hopping Campaign. The U.S. Marines Corps secured Tarawa Atoll from the Japanese Marine garrison who, as was usually the case, fought almost to the last man.
* During the Korean War, the North Korean invasion was turned back when the UN forces under General Douglas [=MacArthur=], staged an amphibious assault on the west coast of South Korea, near the capital Seoul which was under communist control. To make it even more awesome, they landed in an area that was notoriously bad for shore landings, waiting until the tide was right before attacking. The North Koreans were not prepared for it.
* WorldWarI. In 1915 the Allies invaded the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey in an attempt to capture Constantinople. After eight months of hard fighting and heavy loss of life on both sides it became clear that the invasion could not succeed and the Allied forces were evacuated.
* Famously averted in the first GulfWar. The Coalition positioned naval forces off the coast of occupied Kuwait to fool the Iraqis into thinking they would launch a huge amphibious assault. Saddam Hussein took the bait, and suddenly found himself under attack from land-based Coalition forces in the southwest instead.
