LESSONS LEARNED AT NORMANDY?

Strategy Page posts a photograph of an amphibious landing rehearsal somewhere in the antipodes.

Unattributed photograph retrieved from Strategy Page.

There are a few follow-on forces wading ashore from that latter-day Higgins Boat, but those "amphibious assault vehicles" appear to be sufficiently armored that the troops could ride ashore and then disembark.  I hope that ship of the line on the horizon is capable of providing some sort of supporting fire if required.