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Tarawa/Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ship
The Tarawa-class LHAs and Wasp-class LHDs provide the Marine Corps with a means of ship-to-shore movement by helicopter in addition to movement by landing craft. Three LHAs -- which have extensive ...
Air Force Times on MSN7mon
USS Tarawa sent to ocean floor in Rim of the Pacific exercise
Two decommissioned U.S. Navy vessels sunk to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean off the northern coast of Kauai, a Hawaiian ...
Daily Express US on MSN7mon
China issued warning shot as US sinks 820-foot ship with stealth explosives
The United States military has sent a warning to China by blowing up a decommissioned naval ship, the USS Tarawa, in the ...
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Rising Seas Threaten These Pacific Islands but Not Their Culture
Early this year a king tide lifted a shipwreck off the reef at Betio, Tarawa’s westernmost islet, and flung it ashore, piercing a seawall. There it has stayed. The ship has an ironic name ...