At 6:00 a.m. the first assault formations lined up before charging for the beaches.

Two minutes later the SEALs had spread out in an assault formation, in a line five yards apart.

Believing that enemy resistance was over, we abandoned our assault formation in depth and brought the reserves and machine-gun units up to the front line.

Utilising a track as a guide he reformed the troop into a wide assault formation.

Fording a flooded creek, they shook out into assault formation astride the plantation road.

Rear ramps dropped, and infantrymen doubled out, went into assault formation, charged the Blue lines.

While the artillery prepared the ground for the attack, behind the Australian lines the assault formations moved up towards The Pimple.

As the officers lined up in assault formation, Iano quickly checked with the units at either end of the street and behind the building.

Out of nowhere, bright beams of force lanced through the night and struck the strike team as it was drawn up in assault formation.

While the coastal defenses had not turned back the invasion at the beach, they had broken up and weakened the assault formations struggling through them.