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USS Okinawa (LPH–3) was the second Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship assigned the name "Okinawa", in honor of the World War II Battle of Okinawa .
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 ...
The 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash occurred on June 30, 1959, when a U.S. F-100 fighter jet crashed into Miyamori Elementary School in Ishikawa, Okinawa, killing 18 people, including 11 students, and injuring 210 others. The crash led to protests against U.S. military presence in Okinawa and calls for the return of the islands to Japan. [12]
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 ...
A deadly helicopter crash off the coast of Japan has sparked safety concerns surrounding the US military’s V-22 Osprey aircraft.. Multiple people are believed to be dead after an American Osprey ...
The two SH-60K reconnaissance helicopters from the Maritime Self-Defense Force crashed in April during nighttime anti-submarine training near Torishima island, about 600 kilometers (370 miles ...
TG 76.4 consisted of various support vessels, such as Landing Platform, Helicopter (LPHs) such as the USS Princeton (LPH-5), USS Okinawa (LPH-3) or USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2). Other vessels included LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) or LSD (Landing Ship Dock) supported a reinforced Marine Corps battalion referred to as a Battalion Landing Team (BLT).
View of the flight deck of USS Nimitz after the crash of the EA-6B. 26 May Grumman EA-6B Prowler, BuNo 159910, of VMAQ-2 Detachment Y, crash landed on the flight deck of USS Nimitz, off the Florida coast, [43] killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others (some reports say 42, some 48). The crash was the result of the aircraft missing the last ...