helicopter carriers of the united states. typically smaller aircraft carriers with no/ short...
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Helicopter Carriers of the United States
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Typically smaller aircraft carriers with no/ short landing strip
Can be older strip deck carriers transferred to helicopter carrier
Also called amphibious assault ship
Helicopter Carriers
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Commencement Bay ClassFirst Helicopter Carrrier
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USS Block Island
CVE-106/LPH-1 Conversion Canceled
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Essex Class
First helicopter carriers, transferred after Midway class was built
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USS Boxer
CV-21 Prime recovery vessel
for the Apollo AS-201 mission
LPH-4 First of Essex class to
be converted
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USS Princeton
CV-37 Last mission was
recovery for Apollo 10 mission
LPH-5
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USS Valley Forge
CV-45 She was the prime
recovery vessel for an early unmanned Mercury space mission
LPH-8
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Casablanca Class
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USS Thetis Bay
CVE-90/CVHA-1/LPH-6 Reclassified twice
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Iwo Jima Class
First class built as helicopter carrier from the start
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USS Iwo Jima
LPH-2 Named after the
Battle of Iwo Jima
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LPH-3 Expended as a target
USS Okinawa
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USS Guadalcanal
LPH-7 Recovered Gemini X
astronauts
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USS Guam
LPH-9 vessel for Admiral
Elmo Zumwalts Sea Control Ship concept
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USS Tripoli
LPH-10 sponsored by Mrs.
Jane Cates
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USS New Orleans
LPH-11 Named for the last
battle of 1812
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USS Inchon
LPH-12 Inchon was
redesignated a Mine Countermeasures Command and Support Ship, MCS-12, on 6 March 1995,
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Tarawa Class
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USS Tarawa
LHA-1 Awaiting disposal
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USS Saipan
LHA-2 From March 1990
through September 1990, was deployed for the fifth time to the Mediterranean
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USS Bellau Wood
LHA-3 nicknamed "Devil
Dog",
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USS Nassau
LHA-4 Nassau became the
flagship for Commander, Amphibious Task Force and the 4th MEB's Commanding General
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USS Peleliu
LHA-5 Originally to be
named the Khe Sanh and then Da Nang, Peleliu's keel was laid down in 1976
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Wasp ClassSecond Landing Helicopter Deck (LHD) class
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USS Wasp
LHD-1 accommodates the
full range of Navy and Marine Corps helicopters, conventional landing craft, and amphibious vehicles.
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USS Essex
LHD-2 Fifth (5th) ship to be
named after Essex county, Massachusetts
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USS Kearsarge
LHD-3 Named after mount
Kearsarge, Massachusetts
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USS Boxer
LHD-4 The Boxer is
designated as the flagship of Combined Task Force 151, the international anti-piracy task force pursuing pirates off the coast of Somalia
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USS Bataan
LHD-5 Commissioned: 20
September 1997
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USS Bonne Homme Richard
LHD-6 Bon Homme Richard is
currently scheduled to switch homeports in Spring 2012 when it will take the place of the USS Essex (LHD-2) as the command ship for Expeditionary Strike Group Seven in Sasebo, Japan.
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USS Iwo Jima
LHD-7 First ship publicly
released after 9/11 attacks
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USS Makin Island
LHD-8 The
secondary/convertible mission for Makin Island is that of sea control and power projection
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America ClassPlanned class
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No other info specified or ships specified just 12 planned
USS America