The next month, the task force was called on to support amphibious operations in the Marianas.
On the 28th, she began preparing for another amphibious operation.
It was training in amphibious operations at the time of the Japanese surrender.
It was the first major amphibious operation carried out by Allied forces in the war.
The first of her eight amphibious operations came the day after she arrived in the combat zone.
It would be landed immediately after the ground troops during the initial stage of an amphibious operation.
She saw only the final five months of the campaign and participated in its last two amphibious operations.
But with each circle the tension increased for everyone in the amphibious operation.
If Downfall had taken place, it would have been the largest amphibious operation in human history.
General Bradley tells me amphibious operations are a thing of the past.