National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures

A right side view of a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA-2) during exercise Ocean Venture '81

[No caption entered] (U.S. Air Force Number D55313AC)

A Formation Of Consolidated B-24 "Liberators" Roars Toward Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, Where They Will Strike Japanese Installations On The Tiny Island Halfway Between Saipan And Japanese Homeland. 21 October 1944. (U.S. Air Force Number A70513AC)

Helicopter crewmen from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 261 (HMM-261) prepare to fire an M-2 .50-caliber machine gun from the stern of the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA-2) during weapons training held prior Operation Sharp Edge. The SAIPAN is on station off the coast of Liberia

[Assignment: 48-DPA-SOI_K_Saipan_6-5-07] Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides] to Saipan Island, of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands [48-DPA-SOI_K_Saipan_6-5-07__DI10693.JPG]

Combat Photogs Drop in at the Club

George Tweed on Board USS HORNET (CV 12) After Having Been Transferred From USS McCALL (DD 400), the Ship That Rescued Him From Guam

During a man overboard drill the US Navy (USN) Landing Craft Personnel Large (LCPL) is lowered over the side of the USN Tarawa Class Amphibious Assault Ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2)

[No caption entered] (U.S. Air Force Number 63465AC)

The Beach MASTER Unit (BMU) 1 unloads materials from a Landing Craft, Utility 1634 (LCU) with a 10K Rough Terrain forklift, at the Inner Apra Harbor, Guam in support of Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003

A CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter (foreground) and a CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH-9) during operations off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon

[Assignment: 48-DPA-SOI_K_Guam_6-6-7-07] Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides] to Guam, U.S. Territory [48-DPA-SOI_K_Guam_6-6-7-07__DI11568.JPG]