It was Winston Churchill's idea to land troops on that coast".
These assault or LCVP boats would land troops and material on invasion beachheads.
The enemy tried to land troops at Nanakuh and Waikiki beaches, but were repulsed.
Our tactic was "leapfrogging," or bypassing an enemy-held island to land troops on another, more lightly held island.
The 328-foot vessel, used to land troops in Normandy for the D-Day invasion, will become a museum.
Helicopters were heard flying low over the area on Monday night, apparently to land troops or equipment.
If the United States took the risk to land troops in Somalia, they wondered, why did they not capture Mr. Nabhan instead of killing him?
Since the Black Sea and the Baltic were closed to them, the Allies could land troops only on Russia's Arctic and Pacific shores.
Ottoman land troops were sent to defend Algiers against Habsburg attacks, which probably was the main reason Barbarossa agreed to join the sultan.
Those flights had been diverted so that the United States could land troops and equipment, and lift Americans and other foreigners to safety.
More serious, the cost of new planes so overwhelms budgets as to leave land troops underequipped - as is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan.
