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USS Lejeune departed San Francisco for Bremerton, Washington on 2 October 1947, where she was decommissioned 9 February 1948 and placed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Tacoma, Washington. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register in July 1957 and scrapped at Portland, Oregon 16 August 1966.
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B. RFA Bacchus (A103) USS Bagley (DD-386) Soviet destroyer Baku; USS Balch (DD-363) Spanish cruiser Baleares; Italian submarine Berillo; Soviet destroyer Besposhchadny (1936)
Lejeune was born on January 10, 1867, at the Old Hickory Plantation near Lacour, Louisiana, in Pointe Coupee Parish. [3] He was the son of Confederate army captain Ovide Lejeune (1820–1889) [4] He attended the preparatory program at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge from September 1881 to April 1884, leaving to prepare for the entrance exam for the United States Naval Academy. [5]
A United States Navy Lockheed S-3 Viking from USS Nimitz is lost near Sardinia with all four aviators killed. [43] 22 November United States Navy LTV A-7E-11-CV Corsair II, BuNo 158678, 'AJ-310', of VA-82 from the USS Nimitz air wing and based at Cecil Field, Florida, crashed at 1200 hrs roughly 120 mi (190 km) northwest of Sardinia. Aircraft ...
Marine from the U.S. 22nd MEU participates in a long-range deployment exercise from the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) into Djibouti, August 2002. The 2005-2006 deployment saw the members of the 22nd MEU in Iraq , battling insurgents from a forward operating base in and around the ancient city of Hīt (pronounced "heet").
The 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (13th MEU) is one of seven Marine Expeditionary Units currently in existence in the United States Marine Corps.The Marine Expeditionary Unit is a Marine Air Ground Task Force with a strength of about 2,200 personnel.
USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) is a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Fort McHenry , in Baltimore, Maryland , the 1814 defense of which inspired " The Star-Spangled Banner ".