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The Cover: Largest vessel in the amphibious fleet is the Landing Ship, Dock (LSD). As the amphibious forces of the Pacific Fleet move continually closer to Japan, training Bulletin presents an article on the training of many of the officers and men that comprise those forces. Skilled in the use of ships and boats that did not exist on the day of Pearl Harbor, many of the Pacific amphibians trained on the beaches of California. What they went through in training, and what their successors today are learning, is set forth starting on the opposite page. ……. Articles Inside: ComPhibTraPac ….. New Amphibious Craft ….. Landing Craft School ….. Troop Training Unit ….. Maintenance & Repair ….. Naval Gunfire Liaison ….. South Pacific Training ….. Training Digest: Navy Publications ….. Quiz: Plane Identification ….. At the Training Activities ….. Training Film: Oxygen Breather ….. Training Film: 40-mm. Gun ….. Steam Charts ….. Magazine Index ….. Training Posters of the Month ….. New Training Films ….. Cumulative Index, 15 December 1943 -15 June 1944