Type, class: Amphibious Assault Ship (General Purpose) – LHA; Tarawa – classBuilder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA STATUS:Awarded: November 15, 1969Laid down: March 5, 1973Launched: April 11, 1977Commissioned: September 23, 1978Decommissioned: October 28, 2005 Fate: sunk as a target on July 13, 2006 (Pacific) during exercise RIMPAC 2006 Namesake: The Battle of Belleau Wood, France – June 1918 (WW I)Ships Motto: ?Technical Data: see: INFO > Tarawa class Amphibious AssaultContinue reading “LHA 3 – USS Belleau Wood”
Monthly Archives: December 2022
US Navy’s destroyer USS Carl M. Levin (DDG 120) completed acceptance trials with a General Dynamics Bath Iron Works operating crew.
Photo: GD BIW As explained, the acceptance trials were carrier out on a number of ship systems for the US Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) over three days in the Gulf of Maine. They were completed on 9 December. During Acceptance Trials, a Bath Iron Works crew operates the ship and demonstrates itsContinue reading “US Navy’s destroyer USS Carl M. Levin (DDG 120) completed acceptance trials with a General Dynamics Bath Iron Works operating crew.”
HMS Albion leads the way as Surface Fleet stars are honoured 14 December 2022
Hopefully there’s space in the rigging, because HMS Albion has not one, not two but three new flags to hoist over the next 12 months. The UK’s amphibious flagship – which returned home from leading the RN’s key autumn deployment to the Mediterranean last weekend – has been awarded three pennants for rising above theContinue reading “HMS Albion leads the way as Surface Fleet stars are honoured 14 December 2022”
One Japanese Soldier Continued to Fight for 30 Years After WWII
Kanji Tsuda Onoda: 10,000 Days in the Jungle.” (Dark Star Pictures) 14 Dec 2022 Military.com | By James Barber When Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda was deployed to Lubang in the Philippines in 1944, he was instructed to hold the remote island until the Japanese Army returned. Onoda took the orders very seriously and fought a guerrilla war onContinue reading “One Japanese Soldier Continued to Fight for 30 Years After WWII”
Partner Nations Help with Operation Christmas Drop 2022 – Aircrew from the U.S. Air Force, Republic of Korea Air Force, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, Royal Australian Air Force and Royal New Zealand Air Force participated in the 71st Operation Christmas Drop this year, delivering 209 bundles of supplies weighing a total of more than 75 thousand pounds to 57 locations in the Federated States of Micronesia and Republic of Palau.
DECEMBER 14, 2022 – Five partner nation air forces worked together to deliver humanitarian aid as part of Operation Christmas Drop 2022, the Department of Defense’s longest-running humanitarian aid mission delivering essential supplies to island communities in the western Pacific, Dec. 4-13, 2022. Aircrew from the U.S. Air Force, Republic of Korea Air Force, JapanContinue reading “Partner Nations Help with Operation Christmas Drop 2022 – Aircrew from the U.S. Air Force, Republic of Korea Air Force, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, Royal Australian Air Force and Royal New Zealand Air Force participated in the 71st Operation Christmas Drop this year, delivering 209 bundles of supplies weighing a total of more than 75 thousand pounds to 57 locations in the Federated States of Micronesia and Republic of Palau.”
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