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Naval Base Guam is a strategic U.S. naval base located on Apra Harbor and occupying the Orote Peninsula. In 2009, it was combined with Andersen Air Force Base to form Joint Region Marianas, which is a Navy-controlled joint base. The Ship Repair Facility, Guam, was located next to Naval Base Guam, along Apra Harbor.
USS Guam (LPH-9), was an Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship, and was laid down by the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 15 November 1962; launched on 22 August 1964, sponsored by Mrs. Vaughn H. Emory Green, and commissioned on 16 January 1965.
USS LST-646 and USS LST-662 in ABSD-6, in Apra Harbor, Guam, 29 May 1945 USS ABSD-6 being assembled at Apra Harbor, Guam in 1945 ABSD-6's Section D and one crane under tow to Guam. pontoons are folded down to reduce wind resistance and lower center of gravity ABSD-6's sister ship, USS ABSD-3 at Guam, to the rear right of ABSD-3 is the land base ...
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USNS Guam (T-HST-1), formerly Hawaii Superferry's Huakai, is a United States Navy high-speed transport vessel. [2] The ship was completed in September 2008 and was intended to start Hawaiian service in May 2009, though delivery postponements saw that planned service canceled. In the Hawaiian language, huakaŹ»i means "journey".
The island of Guam is visited by tourists including cruise passengers. But authorities in the tropical U.S. territory said no this week to a visitor of a different sort – thousands of
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Guam (NCTS Guam) is a United States Navy communications facility on the U.S. territory of Guam. It is located on the Naval Base Guam North Finegayan Telecommunications Site [ 2 ] along Guam Highway 3 in Dededo , on the northwest coast of the island.
After taking possession of the island in the 1898 Spanish–American War, the United States operated it as its coaling and shipping station in the western Pacific. Except for the Japanese occupation of Guam from 1941 to 1944, the territorial Naval Administration ran the commercial port until 1951, when the 24 acres of commercial port was transferred to the United States Department of Commerce.