1962 to 1992    

LPH-3 USS Okinawa

US US Navy





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Call Sign: NOKI
Shipyard: Philadelphia Naval Shipyard





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History of US USS Okinawa LPH-3

1960-apr-01Laid downLaid down
1961-aug-19LaunchedLaunched
1962-apr-14CommissionedCommissioned
1967-may-18DeploymentDeployment Special Landing Force Alpha Operation Beau Charger launched US Marines into the Ben Hai River Valley and into LZ Goose. Detachment of HMM-263 aboard.
1968-apr-04 Apollo 6 mission, 1st LPH as primary recovery ship, 370 miles north of Hawaii
1969-jun HMM-265 replaced HMM-362 onboard, replaced by HMM-165 in August, SLF helicopter squadrons HMMs 164 and 362 were rotated to Phu Bai in support of the 3rd MarDiv
1970-dec-13 At Subic Bay Naval Base, Philippines
1970-dec-25 Returned to San Diego, California after 7 month WESTPAC
1971-aug-07 Apollo 15 astronauts lifted aboard by helicopter with Soviet tug in target area
1972-may HMM-164 from the 9th MEB arrived in support of the Vietnamese Marines, each ARG consisted of 4 H-53s (including 156656 ) , 14 H-46s and 4 UH-1Es
1973-oct Replaced the USS Tripoli LPH-10 in Subic Bay, (in the Pacific fleet there were only 3 LPHs for 5 squadrons), transferred all embarked MAU elements
1974-apr-05 Arrived at Subic Bay with elements of the 31st MAU that unloaded cargo for LPH turnover to the USS New Orleans LPH-11
1975-mar Underway from Subic Bay for the Gulf of Thailand
1975-apr-12 Operation Eagle Pull, in the Gulf of Thailand with US Marines CH-53 helicopters to evacuate personnel from Phnom Penh
1975-may-03 Arrived at Subic Bay with 150 evacuees aboard from Phnom Penh
1980-jan WESTPAC, in place of USS New Orleans LPH-11, relieves USS Tripoli LPH-10
1987-dec-25 Bob Hope Christmas show onboard
1990-oct-12 Persian Gulf Operation Desert Shield/Storm During Operation Desert Storm, UNREP with fleet oiler Andrew J. Higgins TAO 190
1991-jan-29 Marines capture Umm al Maradim Island, 12 miles off the coast of Kuwait
1992-nov-17DecommissionedDecommissioned
1992-nov-17StruckStruck
2002-jun-06Fate: sunkFate: sunk COMSUBPAC off Southern California



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