Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Following commissioning and sea trials, Okinawa departed Philadelphia on 20 June 1962 for her homeport, Norfolk, Va., where she spent a month fitting out.After a six-week shakedown cruise out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and another month in Norfolk, the amphibious assault ship began participation in her first fleet exercise in the Caribbean, 15 October.
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 110 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Okinawa, in honor of the Battle of Okinawa. The first USS Okinawa (CVE-127) was to be an escort carrier, but was cancelled before completion. The second USS Okinawa (LPH-3) was an Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship in service from 1962 to 1992.
USS LSM(R)-188: Landing Ship Air Attack by single kamikaze 15 32 29 Mar 45 USS Wyandot: Attack Cargo Ship Mine, possibly bomb 0 1 31 Mar 45 USS Indianapolis: Cruiser Air Attack, bomb thru fuel tanks 9 20 1 Apr 45 USS Adams: Destroyer Minelayer Air Attack, kamikaze w/bombs to fantail 0 0 1 Apr 45 USS Alpine: Attack Transport Air Attack, bomb and ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 12:01, 2 April 2009: 2,007 × 3,000 (1.6 MB): Felix Stember {{Information |Description=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. |Source=defenseimagery.mil, VIRIN: DF-ST-88-02647 |Date=19
The Liberty ship Rebecca Lukens was converted into a floating machine shop, repair, and maintenance depot and rechristened as the Maj Gen Herbert A Dargue. Operation Ivory Soap was a classified United States military project to provide forward theatre support for aircraft repair and maintenance during World War II in the Pacific Theatre of Operations.
Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 (VMM-265) is a United States Marine Corps assault support transport squadron consisting of MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. The squadron, known as the "Dragons", is based at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan and falls under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 36 (MAG-36) and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1st MAW).
USS Louisville (CL/CA-28), a Northampton-class cruiser, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city of Louisville, Kentucky. She was active throughout the Pacific War . USS Louisville was the first large warship to be built in a drydock.