Timeline
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Dec 18, 1964 | |
| Mar 1, 1966 | |
| Feb 3, 1968 | |
| Nov 16, 1968 | |
| Mar 3, 1969 | Arrived at her homeport San Diego by way of the Panama Canal |
| Jul 22, 1969 | Commander COMPHIBRON ONE transferred his pennant from USS Dubuque LPD-8 |
| Jul 29, 1969 | NAS North Island departed North Island for S Vietnam with 18 CH-53A of HMH-361. assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361 |
| Aug 1969 | Flagship for Amphibious Ready Group Bravo |
| Aug 27, 1969 | Offloaded 18 CH-53As from HMM-361 to join MAG-36 at Phu Bai |
| Oct 1969 | Operation Keystone Cardinal |
| Oct 1969 | Offloaded Battalion Landing Team 2-26 |
| 1970 | Marines of the 26th Regiment boarded at Da Nang for trip back home |
| Mar 12, 1970 | Docked at Da Nang |
| Aug 1970 | Provided support and security for President Nixon visit to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico |
| 1971 | Mike Douglas TV Show filmed onboard |
| Feb 9, 1971 | Apollo 14 astronauts quarantined on Pacific Carrier. Sea kings 152123, 152121 |
| Feb 9, 1971 | Helicopters of HS-6 and frogmen of UDT-11 made recovery |
| Mar 28, 1973 | Operation End Sweep, neutralized mines in Haiphong Harbor with Navy and Marine CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters |
| Jul 26, 1973 | Transfer 13 CH-53s from Cubi Point as substitutes for HMM-165 s CH-46s, equiped with ALE-29 flare dispensers to counter heat-seeking missles, (MAU s aviation element - 13 CH-53s, 4 CH-46s, 4 AH-IJs and 2 UH-IEs) |
| Aug 6, 1973 | Departed Subic Bay reaching Gulf of Thailand in four days, MAU, 1st Battalion 4th Marines and HMM-165 |
| Sep 25, 1973 | Skylab 2 astronauts sleep aboard as ship arrives in San Diego |
| Jan 4, 1974 | Underway for Skylab IV mission |
| Feb 8, 1974 | Recovered astronauts Gibson, Pogue and Carr about an hour after splashdown, 176 miles from San Diego, California |
| Apr 6, 1974 | 31st MAU s LPH unit swap complete from LPH-3 |
| Jun 22, 1974 | Returned to Subic Bay from Okinawa where HMM-164 replaced HMH-462 |
| Jul 1975 | At Pearl Harbor, lowered Apollo capsule to the dock |
| Jul 24, 1975 | Apollo lands 6.2 miles from recovery ship, 330 miles west of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, craft lowered by crane onto deck |
| Sep 1977 |  Yokosuka Naval Base U.S. Naval Base Yokosuka, Japan |
| Sep 28, 1977 | AV-8 Harrier jet landed on the deck, then rose and roared off, near the coast of Okinawa |
| Oct 1977 | 3rd Battalion 4th Marines onboard, WESTPAC 77 |
| Oct 11, 1977 | UNREP with USS San Jose (AFS-7) |
| Nov 1, 1977 |  Subic Bay Harbour Pierside Subic Bay, Philippines |
| Dec 7, 1977 | Naval Base San Diego Moored NAV STA San Diego Pier |
| Jun 7, 1978 | WESTPAC 78 June 7-Oct.5, 4 months |
| Jul 31, 1978 |  Hong Kong Port Port visit Hong Kong after typhoon hit |
| Oct 5, 1978 | Arrived at San Diego from WESTPAC 78 |
| 1979 | In the fall of 79, HS-2 participated in amphibious operations with a multi-nation task force |
| Oct 1979 |  Coal Harbour Kernel Potlatch II, Vancouver, Canada |
| Mar 1980 | Arabian Sea West Pac-Indian Ocean, Gulf of Oman |
| May 23, 1980 | U/W WESTPAC |
| May 30, 1980 | Arabian Sea HMM-262 Flying Tigers flew aboard and joined a detachment of four AH-1T from HMA-169 to conduct operations in the Northern Arabian Gulf in response to the hostage crisis in Iran Operation Eagles Claw |
| Jul 1980 | Typhoon Kim means stand down, Philippines |
| Aug 19, 1980 | Miss America Troop arrives by helicopter |
| Sep 1980 |  Port Mombasa Port Mombasa, Kenya after 33 day patrol |
| Sep 2, 1980 | Shellback Initiation Ceremony |
| Sep 18, 1980 |  Diego Garcia Port Inport Diego Garcia, for 8 hrs to refuel |
| Sep 27, 1980 |  Fremantle Harbour Fremantle-Perth, Australia, Sept.27-Oct. 2 |
| Nov 13, 1980 | NS Pearl Harbor Inport Pearl Harbor, Hawaii where Tiger Cruise 80 started Nov. 15th |
| Nov 22, 1980 | Naval Base San Diego Arrive in San Diego, end of WESTPAC 80 |
| 1991 | Cross-decked MH-53E helicopters and equipment from the USS Tripoli in the Persian Gulf |
| Sep 1993 | Operation Restore Hope, Mogadishu, Somalia |
| Sep 3, 1993 | Underway WESTPAC 93-94 |
| Nov 1994 | Portions of the movie Apollo 13 filmed onboard |
| Aug 1995 | CH-46 157693 ditched on sea near Jordan |
| Aug 17, 1995 | Persian Gulf Dispatched to station off Kuwait |
| Dec 22, 1995 | Returned from WESTPAC with more than 4,000 sailors and marines, the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit |
| 1997 | Decommissioned after 90,000 helicopter landings and traveling 750,000 miles |
| Oct 31, 1997 | |
| Oct 23, 1998 | |
| Jul 10, 2010 | as a target during RIMPAC |
See also
| Built | Ship | Class | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | LPD-18 | USS New Orleans | San Antonio class |