... technology U.S. Marine Corps World War II From 1 April 1945, when soldiers and Marines of the U.S. Tenth Army walked onto the beaches of Okinawa, until 15 May 1972, when Army Lieutenant General James B. Lampert, U.S. High Commissioner of the Ryukyu Islands, departed the island carrying the cased flag...

... naval gunfire support operations Pacific War U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Navy During the 1930s, the United States Navy and Marine Corps developed a doctrine for training amphibious troops and for planning an attack from the sea against heavily defended objectives. A key component of that doctrine...

...In 1942, the U.S. Marine Corps created the Marine Raider battalions, the first American special forces units of World War II.However, the introduction of an elite subculture within the ranks of the Marine Corps, which already prided itself on being the nation’s elite fighting force, resulted...

...During the Vietnam War, combined action platoons (CAPs) were the primary counterinsurgency instruments for the U.S. Marine Corps. The American contingent of each CAP consisted of approximately a dozen U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman, or medic, all of whom lived in South Vietnamese villages...