USS Guam (LPH-9)
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USS Guam, 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,
USS Guam on 23 August 1990
Guam in the Caribbean, 1965.
Deck of Guam, while in port in Halifax Harbour in 1969.
USS Guam visiting Southampton, United Kingdom, in 1974. Visible are a CH-46F Sea Knight and AV-8A Harriers of VMA-513, US Marine Corps.
The United States and a coalition of Caribbean countries invaded the island nation of Grenada at dawn on 25 October 1983. It was codenamed Operation Urgent Fury by the U.S. military, and resulted in m
USS Guam (LPH-9)
…1983, bound for another stint off the coast of Lebanon, she was redirected to the Caribbean to serve as the flagship for Operation Urgent Fury, the invasion of Grenada. Vice Adm. Joseph P. Metcalf III and his command team of 50 directed the week-long invasion from the flag plot of the Guam, a control center designed…
An American Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter hovers above the ground near an abandoned Soviet ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun during the American invasion of Grenada, 1983.
Point Salines International Airport
Maurice Bishop and Foreign Minister Unison Whiteman in East Germany, 1982
Members of the Eastern Caribbean Defense Force