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I do not have any dioramas completed or in progress, but will be very interested in seeing photos of your diorama. I am in the final stages of revising a book on amphibious operations that I have been working on for the past six years. The focus is Army amphibious operations in the Korean War, but I have an introductory chapter that covers the history of Army amphibious operations. I mention Fort Fisher briefly:
In January 1865, after a failed attempt in December 1864 that reflected the worst of the American cooperation approach to joint warfare, Army and Navy forces successfully captured Fort Fisher at the mouth of the Cape Fear River. In spite of previous friction between the two officers, Major General Alfred H. Terry and Admiral Porter cooperated closely. The operation was well planned, the preliminary naval bombardment was accurate and intense, the unopposed landing north of the fortress was well organized, and Porter’s ships provided close support fires during the final assault, which included a 2,000-man naval brigade of sailors and marines as well as Terry’s Army forces. The seizure of Fort Fisher opened the way to the capture of Wilmington, North Carolina, thus establishing a secure line of communication for Major General William T. Sherman’s army advancing northward from Georgia. [17]
17. Gary J. Ohls, “Fort Fisher: Amphibious Victory in the American Civil War,” Naval War College Review, Vol. 59, No. 4, Autumn 2006, 81–99; Joseph E. King, “The Fort Fisher Campaigns, 1864–65,” in Merrill L. Bartlett, ed., Assault from the Sea: Essays on the History of Amphibious Warfare (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1983), 95–104; Rowena Reed, Combined Operations in the Civil War (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1978), 321–383.
Donald W. Boose, Jr., Over the Beach: Army Amphibious Operations in the Korean War (Forthcoming: Fort Leavenworth, KS: US Army Combat Studies Institute, 2008), p. 10.
Don
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