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unusual facts about assault landing



1st Canadian Armoured Brigade

Issued brand new M4 "Sherman" tanks, the entire brigade moved to the Mediterranean, with The Three Rivers Regiment participating in the assault landing at Pachino.


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History of Pernambuco

The English privateer James Lancaster, after picking up a chance-met separate squadron under Captain Henry Middleton, led an assault landing, seized the town of Recife and (with the assistance of a flotilla of Dutch traders who also threw in their lot with him) held it for several weeks, sailing away with the cargo of an East Indian carrack along with local plunder such as brazil-wood.

Khmer National Navy

That same month at the Battle of Oudong, the MNK carried out its second large-scale amphibious assault, Operation ‘Castor 50’, during which another task-force of assault landing crafts was ferried up the Tonle Sap river to retake Oudong, the capital of Oudong Meanchey Province from the Khmer Rouge, who were waiting for them at the predicted landing site with B-40 rocket launchers and 75mm recoilless rifles.