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Aircraft carried: 25 helicopters: USS Okinawa (LPH–3) was the second Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy.
With the Philippines Islands behind it the amphibious assault ship USS OKINAWA (LPH-3) is underway to the open sea with the men of the 31st Marine Amphibious Unit aboard. Date: 1 August 1982: Source: DoDMedia, cropped: Author: CPL S.L. KAETER: Permission (Reusing this file)
Okinawa: LPH-3 Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia: 1 April 1960 19 August 1961 14 April 1962 17 December 1992 Sunk as target, 6 June 2002 Guadalcanal: LPH-7 1 September 1961 16 March 1963 20 July 1963 31 August 1994 Sunk as target, 19 May 2005 Guam: LPH-9 15 November 1962 22 August 1964 16 January 1965 25 August 1998 Sunk as target, 16 ...
USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) USS Princeton (LPH-5) Thetis Bay (LPH-6) Further information: Landing platform helicopter The Landing Platform Helicopter (LPH) would be the first ships to operate helicopters for large scale air assault behind beaches.
For ships of this hull classification in the Royal Navy, LPH is a direct acronym for "Landing Platform Helicopter", while the United States Navy referred to its vessels within this classification as "Landing ship, Personnel, Helicopter", [1] and after 2006 as "amphibious assault ships". The etymology is L for amphibious, P for transport, and H ...
Persian Gulf. Crew members aboard the amphibious assault ship USS OKINAWA (LPH 3) fish from a sponson on which a Mark 16 20 mm Phalanx close-in weapon system is mounted. Author: PH2 (SW) JEFF ELLIOTT: Orientation: Normal: Horizontal resolution: 300 dpi: Vertical resolution: 300 dpi: Software used: Adobe Photoshop 7.0: File change date and time ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -- A U.S. military helicopter crashed in waters off the Japanese southern island of Okinawa during a training mission on Wednesday, injuring seven people and prompting Japan's ...
English: U.S. Marines aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Okinawa play Scrabble under the aft Mark 33 3-inch/50-caliber gun mount as the ship cruises the Persian Gulf. Deutsch: US-Marines an Bord des amphibischen Angriffsschiffs USS Okinawa (LPH-3) spielen achtern Scrabble unter einer Mark-33-Geschützanlage während das Schiff im Persischen ...