USS Saipan (LHA-2)
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USS Saipan was a Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship, the second United States Navy ship named in honor of the World War II Battle of Saipan. Commissioned in 1977, the ship saw service until 2007 whe
USS Saipan underway on 5 April 2004
USS Saipan moored at Naval Station Rota (Spain) in February 1982 along with the USS Raleigh and Spanish carrier Dédalo
OV-10 Broncos of VMO-1 parked aboard Saipan in 1987
Saipan conducts an underway replenishment with USS Simpson during exercise Phoenix Express 2006.
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 Saipan (LHA-2)
…first scheduled complex overhaul. In September 1983, while undergoing Refresher Training at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Saipan was diverted to participate in Operation Urgent Fury off Grenada. In 1984 Saipan on another North Atlantic deployment. In January 1985, Saipan departed for her third Mediterranean deployment. She steamed…
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