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MH-53E Washdown
#otd Crewmen wash down a MH-53E from HM-14 aboard USS Tripoli LPH-10. She was serving as a platform for helicopter mine-clearing...
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USS Tripoli LPH-10 after the mine
This one is for our friend Eric, here is USS Tripoli LPH-10 in drydock following repair of a large hole 10 feet beneath its waterline. ...
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USS Tripoli LPH-10
#otd USS Tripoli LPH-10 struck a mine while serving as a mine-clearing platform in the northern Persian Gulf, 18 February 1991. Here she...