Attachment 3 - Brilliant at the Basics of Our Profession

1 23 March 2010 Brilliant at the Basics of Our Profession – An Example from our History How well do you know your ship? How well do you know your gear? How well do you know yourself? On 11 May 1945 USS BUNKER HILL (CV17), one of the new ESSEX class fast carriers around which the post-Pearl Harbor Navy was built, was sailing as the flagship of VADM Marc Mitscher’s Task Force 58 during the Okinawa campaign. The Marines and Army went ashore on Okinawa on 1 April 1945 in what b