Faʻamaeʻa le fuaiupu lea: O le Amphibious Training Center (muamua o le Amphibious Training Command) na faʻagaoioia i Camp Edwards i lalo o le Army Ground Forces command i le aso 22 o Me 1942, na sosoʻo ai ma le Engineer Amphibian Command i lalo o le United States Army Corps of Engineers i le aso 10 o Iuni 1942. O le Amphibious Training Center na muaʻi taʻitaʻia e Kolone Frank A. Keating. Na taʻitaʻia e le Kolonela o Daniel Noce le vaega o le amphibians, ma o le Lutena Kolonela o Arthur Trudeau na avea ma taʻitaʻi o le aufaigaluega. Na filifilia le Tolauapiga o Edwards ona o se nofoaga e latalata i matafaga. E ui lava na iloa e lē talafeagai mo aʻoaʻoga i le tau mālūlū, ae o le manatu muamua lava, o le a faaiʻuina aʻoaʻoga i le masina o Novema 1942. Na muaʻi fuafuaina le osofaʻia o Europa i le 1942, peitaʻi na suia ina ia lagolagoina ai le osofaʻiga a le ʻautau.
osofaʻiga a Aferika i Matu iā Tesema 1942.