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The Influence Of Major Earl Hancock Ellis Advanced Base Operations In Micronesia

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An Overlooked Marine Officer
After the Spanish-American War (1898), the victorious United States became recognized as an emerging power after the United States Navy and Marine Corps demonstrated its dominance and strength. Sixteen years later, Marine Commandant George Barnett sent Marine officers to observe European military organization, weapons, and tactics occurring in the first year of World War I. Colonel John Archer Lejeune led the European studies, and Lejeune and his staff continued the examinations throughout 1915. During this time, Major Earl Hancock Ellis (Pete), as the aide-de-camp to Commandant Barnett, developed a friendship with Lejeune. Two years later, President …show more content…

Ellis's text had a significant influence on the American Armed Forces. Since Operation Plan 712 included the Corps’s part of War Plan Orange, “Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia” had the Marines’ amphibious route mapped out for World War II, which the Marines followed except for adding the Gilbert Islands. Moreover, the Battle of Tarawa w As a remarkable visionary, Ellis’s “Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia,” Operation Plan 712, is a groundbreaking paper. Ellis's text had a significant influence on the American Armed Forces. Since Operation Plan 712 included the Corps’s part of War Plan Orange, “Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia” had the Marines’ amphibious route mapped out for World War II, which the Marines followed except for adding the Gilbert Islands. The Battle of Tarawa, moreover, was the first long-distance amphibious operation from an air carrier, and the Marines proved Ellis's amphibious …show more content…

Likewise, the Army built upon the Tentative Landing Manual and FTP 167 to write the War Department's FM-35 War Department Field Manual: Landing Operations on Hostile Shore. During World War II, the Army subsequently had the largest littoral amphibious operation at Normandy in France on June 6, 1944. American soldiers launched the amphibious assaults from mulberries in the littorals of Omaha Beach. By the Pacific Theater's conclusion, the Marine Corps developed into an elite amphibious force as they continually refined the amphibious doctrine to meet its needs to defeat the Japanese foes. With Japan’s surrender, the Marine Corps redefined its role as America’s elite amphibious force for

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