US NAVY SHIPS THE USS IWO JIMA LHD-7 PATCH 'A VERSION' 'ASSOCIATION' - USS Iwo Jima is the seventh WASP-class Amphibious Assault Ship and the second ship in the Navy to bear the name. The IWO JIMA is...
Two Navy ships have carried the name Iwo Jima, and this crest belongs to the second: LHD-7, commissioned 30 June 2001. The scroll reads UNCOMMON VALOR, from Admiral Nimitz's line that at Iwo Jima...
On 15 September 1966, USS Guam LPH-9 picked Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon out of the Atlantic about 710 miles east of Cape Kennedy at the end of Gemini 11. That was one line in a career that ran from...