11.   Avondale, based in Avondale, La., makes amphibious assault vessels, as well as commercial tankers and container ships.

12.   -- Organizing a handful of marine units for amphibious assault and training airborne forces for rapid deployment in Soviet-made transport aircraft.

13.   A combined U.S.-British amphibious assault overnight kicked off the mock liberation effort.

14.   China does not have a convincing capability of conducting an amphibious assault across the Taiwan Strait.

15.   Five others are being held aboard an amphibious assault ship in the northern Arabian Sea.

16.   He is now in the brig aboard the Peleliu, an amphibious assault ship.

17.   In November TAIWAN condemned as provocative a Chinese exercise which included a mock amphibious assault.

18.   Instead of using only helicopters, as in Afghanistan, the Marines in this exercise also used more traditional amphibious assault vehicles.

19.   Instead, the ship served as a base for special operations helicopters and the launching pad for amphibious assaults.

20.   It was the South Pacific that provided the stimulus for underwater demolition and amphibious assault programs.