Delivering Destruction: American Firepower and Amphibious Assault from Tarawa to Iwo Jima Ship Building Appendix IV: Ship’s Master: Certificate

Appendix IV: Ship’s Master: Certificate of Competency

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Delivering Destruction: American Firepower and Amphibious Assault from Tarawa to Iwo Jima Ship Building Appendix IV: Ship’s Master: CertificateOverview Existing literature maintains that the U. S. Marine Corps operational success in the Pacific War rested upon two dominant themes: committed theoretical preparation and courageous battlefield action. Put simply, the Marines wrestled with the conceptual challenges of the amphibious assault in the 1920s and 1930s, then developed the tools and methods necessary to seize a hostile beach. When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, the