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Helicopter Carriers of the United States

Helicopter Carriers of the United States. Helicopter Carriers. Typically smaller aircraft carriers with no/ short landing strip Can be older strip deck carriers transferred to helicopter carrier Also called amphibious assault ship. First Helicopter Carrrier. Commencement Bay Class.

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Helicopter Carriers of the United States

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  1. Helicopter Carriers of the United States

  2. Helicopter Carriers Typically smaller aircraft carriers with no/ short landing strip Can be older strip deck carriers transferred to helicopter carrier Also called amphibious assault ship

  3. First Helicopter Carrrier Commencement Bay Class

  4. USS Block Island • CVE-106/LPH-1 • Conversion Canceled

  5. First helicopter carriers, transferred after Midway class was built Essex Class

  6. USS Boxer • CV-21 • Prime recovery vessel for the Apollo AS-201 mission • LPH-4 • First of Essex class to be converted

  7. USS Princeton • CV-37 • Last mission was recovery for Apollo 10 mission • LPH-5

  8. USS Valley Forge • CV-45 • She was the prime recovery vessel for an early unmanned Mercury space mission • LPH-8

  9. Casablanca Class

  10. USS Thetis Bay • CVE-90/CVHA-1/LPH-6 • Reclassified twice

  11. First class built as helicopter carrier from the start Iwo Jima Class

  12. USS Iwo Jima • LPH-2 • Named after the Battle of Iwo Jima

  13. USS Okinawa LPH-3 Expended as a target

  14. USS Guadalcanal • LPH-7 • Recovered Gemini X astronauts

  15. USS Guam • LPH-9 • vessel for Admiral Elmo Zumwalts Sea Control Ship concept

  16. USS Tripoli • LPH-10 • sponsored by Mrs. Jane Cates

  17. USS NewOrleans • LPH-11 • Named for the last battle of 1812

  18. USS Inchon • LPH-12 • Inchon was redesignated a Mine Countermeasures Command and Support Ship, MCS-12, on 6 March 1995,

  19. Tarawa Class

  20. USS Tarawa • LHA-1 • Awaiting disposal

  21. USS Saipan • LHA-2 • From March 1990 through September 1990, was deployed for the fifth time to the Mediterranean

  22. USS BellauWood • LHA-3 • nicknamed "Devil Dog",

  23. USS Nassau • LHA-4 • Nassau became the flagship for Commander, Amphibious Task Force and the 4th MEB's Commanding General

  24. USS Peleliu • LHA-5 • Originally to be named the Khe Sanh and then Da Nang, Peleliu's keel was laid down in 1976

  25. Second Landing Helicopter Deck (LHD) class Wasp Class

  26. USS Wasp • LHD-1 • accommodates the full range of Navy and Marine Corps helicopters, conventional landing craft, and amphibious vehicles.

  27. USS Essex • LHD-2 • Fifth (5th) ship to be named after Essex county, Massachusetts

  28. USS Kearsarge • LHD-3 • Named after mount Kearsarge, Massachusetts

  29. 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

  30. USS Bataan • LHD-5 • Commissioned: 20 September 1997

  31. 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.

  32. USS Iwo Jima • LHD-7 • First ship publicly released after 9/11 attacks

  33. USS Makin Island • LHD-8 • The secondary/convertible mission for Makin Island is that of sea control and power projection

  34. Planned class America Class

  35. USS America • No other info specified or ships specified just • 12 planned

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