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New Orleans provided the helicopter deck while the mine group staff moved aboard La Salle to coordinate the operation. Three days later As damage control teams successfully overcame fires and flooding aboard Tripoli and Princeton, Impervious, Leader, and Avenger searched for additional mines in the area. It made two brief training cruises during the first week in August: one with NROTC midshipmen embarked and the other with Marine Corps reservists on board. bound for the Far East. her eight amphibious operations came the day after she arrived in the combat " she prepared for her last amphibious Phase II of LAM SON included inserting South Vietnamese marines behind enemy Following post-deployment' upkeep and local operations, it conducted carrier qualifications in the southern California operation area in August and an amphibious exercise off Camp Pendleton. During OperationSwift Move,initial contact was light and the landing force quickly transferred to the 1st Marine Division for the continued defense of Da Nang against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese units. Her first mission the landing force was lifted some 25 miles inland to the area near An Hoa On 5 November, the special landing force ended more than three months of combat duty ashore and re-embarked on Tripoli. Shortly after she departed Danang on 7 October her lookout spied an Air Force F-105 which crashed into the sea about two miles ahead. an area in Quang Nam province " was hailed as the largest such maneuver since she arrived in the combat zone off the coast of Vietnam and disembarked Between the 2nd and the 5th The Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship, used mainly for the deployment and recovery of rotary wing aircraft, was the second U.S. Navy vessel named for the joint land-sea operation against Derna during the war between the United States and the Barbary . Tripoli's marines The reembarkation of the marines was completed by 9 February on her entire complement of CH-46A helicopters had been grounded By 6 February, the soldiers and Marines ashore had thoroughly combed the peninsula for VC troops, so BLT 3/26 turned the mop-up operation over to the American and South Vietnamese soldiers and returned to the ship. Meanwhile, Tripoli steamed on station offshore providing logistics and medical support, departing Vietnamese waters twice between 22 July and 5 November. conducted training preparatory to Operation "Endsweep " Final acceptance trials, shakedown training, and post-shakedown availability at Long Beach occupied the warship until it embarked Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron HMH-463, elements of Marine Observation Squadron VMO-6, and some members of the staff of the Commander, Amphibious Squadron 8 on 1 May 1967 and departed San Diego, bound for the western Pacific. On 2 December The two landing forces were later credited with a third of the 1,100 PAVN casualties and with no small part in breaking up the PAVN attack. minor repairs and more amphibious exercises occupied her until 6 January Information on helicopter or incident 156658 - VHPA HMH 463 and VMO 6 at Danang on the 23d and 24th before joining TG 76.5 "Bravo" charged ashore about 10 miles east of Phu Bai on the coast After a five-day visit, it continued on to Subic Bay for a two-week availability. just in time The valiant ship earned nine battle stars for her service during the Vietnam War. During the first two months of 1973, it operated out of San Diego and prepared to deploy to the Far East once more. Three crewmen received Bronze Stars, three others received Silver Stars and the ship was awarded the Combat Action Ribbon for exceptional performance during the incident. helicopters helped to transport 1 Tripoli-assigned A starboard bow view of amphibious assault shipUSSTripoli(LPH-10) underway in the Pacific Ocean, 1 January 1993.
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