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One of the Iwo Jima class ships served as the fieldsite in Edwin Hutchins's classic cognitive science study Cognition in the Wild. Although Hutchins does not mention the ship class by name, on p.7 he characterizes it as a 592-foot-long (180 m) amphibious helicopter carrier.
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