Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: July 1943 Of the hundreds...

Unit/ Formation: Combined Ops Location: Lofoten Islands Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1941 Date/s: 4th March 1941 Operation...

Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Italy Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 9 September 1943 The Italian front opens at...

Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Burma Period/ Conflict: Second Anglo-Burmese War Year: 1852 Date/s: 10th April 1852 During...

'I assess the most important factor in the success of the operation was first class leadership by junior NCOs. Their section battle craft...

The Dieppe Raid, Operation Jubilee, was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe during the Second World War. The raid took...

On July 24, the allied fleet arrived outside Gibraltar. In all, Rooke commanded 16 English ships under Byng and six Dutch ships under...

The Marines played a major role in the capture of this island, from the first amphibious landing, and through all subsequent fighting....

Lessons Learned (Operation Husky) The beach organisation was better than 'Torch' but there were still problems caused, mainly by human...

Major-General 'Titch' Houghton, who died January 2011 aged 98, was second-in-command of Royal Marine 40 Commando during the Second World...

Image F4 conducting a work up excercise in English Bay Ascension Island With the British Army’s 5 Brigade separated from their vital...

The British Task Force started to land at San Carlos Bay on May 21st 1982 after receiving approval from London, under command of ...

Gallipoli - 28 April 1915 Marines were involved in both the initial, unopposed, landings on the peninsula and the subsequent amphibious...

Mounted by two thousand men of the 4th Battalion Royal Marines and Royal Navy under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes. The...

'I assess the most important factor in the success of the operation was first class leadership by junior NCOs. Their section battle craft...

On July 24, the allied fleet arrived outside Gibraltar. In all, Rooke commanded 16 English ships under Byng and six Dutch ships under...

Throughout the Second World War, LCAs were used for landing Allied forces in almost every Commando operation, major and minor, in the...

The St Nazaire Raid or Operation Chariot was a successful British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St...