Bangkok--24 Mar--Image Impact
Program Title: Assault from the Sea
Channel: HISTORY on TrueVisions A23 and D48Telecast
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 8.00 p.m. (Thai)
Seas and oceans cover almost two-thirds of the Earth’s surface, and provide one of the most flexible ways in which a major power can deploy its military muscle around the world.
Assaults from the sea range from massive invasions to seize whole continents — such as the D-Day landings - to spectacular raids and counterattacks. But landing on a hostile shore from a potentially very hostile environment has always given military planners particular problems — how do we get ashore? How do we secure our beachhead and keep it supplied? And how do we get off and move forward?The programme looks at these key factors in relation to two classic examples: The extraordinary American island-hopping campaign across the Pacific during Word War 2, with particular focus on Iwo Jima. This is the story of how the US had to develop a new form of warfare which would allow it to fight thousands of miles from its fixed bases in order to defeat an implacable enemy. And the surprise landing by the Americans at Inchon during the Korean War which showed how a well-judged assault from the sea can totally transform a campaign.
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