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    USS TARAWA MASTER OF ALL TRADES

    Jan 28, 2022 5 minutes

    The slab-sided appearance of USS Tarawa was unlike anything seen before and, at 39,000 tons, she was comparable in scale to a World War II aircraft carrier, although her island command structure, sited on the starboard edge of the her flight deck, is larger than on most carriers. The basic mission for USS Tarawa and her sisterships USS Saipan, USS Belleau Wood, Nassau and Peleliu was to embark, deploy and land a US Marine battalion either by helicopter, amphibious track vehicles or by landing craft, or a combination of all three.

    The design philosophy behind USS was simple. The US Navy had a large fleet of legacy amphibious ships built during or immediately after World War II, each of which had a single function, and consequently there were many different types,

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