| It is interesting that they were prepared to allocate equipment and roles to whichever branch of the service seemed appropriate. Their armed forces were new enough not to let tradition get in the way.
In many ways it is perfectly logical to have the army operate its lown landing craft, but in the Britain or the US, there would be a huge amount of vested interests and inter-service politics to get round first. Though to be fair, today's British Army does have a few of its own landing craft. |