U.S. Marines Practice Ladings In Combat School: In hard-driving, dress-rehearsal tactics, U.S. Marines at a base on the Eastern Coast of the U.S. are practicing full scale landing operations. Using special new landing boats, amphibious tanks, artillery and automatic weapons, the Marines are polishing the techniques employed successfully in operation in the Solomon Islands. These pictures was taken at the U.S. Marine advanced school of combat techniques. January 18, 1943. (Photo by Interphoto News Pictures, Inc.).