Many in the small beach community brought chairs atop sand dunes overlooking nearby Langham Beach to watch the Marines and Germans arrive on four hovercraft.
Hovercraft packed with troops and armored vehicles zoomed onto a beach during the culminating event of Talisman Sabre, a massive exercise involving 30,000 mostly American and Australian troops.
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