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[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__DI11037.JPG]

Ships from four nations sail in formation during the NATO Southern Region exercise DRAGON HAMMER '90. The ships are, from left: the British light aircraft carrier HMS INVINCIBLE (R-05), the Italian light aircraft carrier ITS GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI (C-551), the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69), the Spanish aircraft carrier SPS PRINCIPE DE ASTURIAS (R-11) and the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2)

A port bow view of the dock landing ship USS GERMANTOWN (LSD-42) underway off Saipan during Operation Tandem Thrust

Cesar Romero, screen star now in the U. S. Coast Guard, gets his first real look at the States after nine months in the South Pacific

A US Navy (USN) MH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter assigned to Helicopter Mine Countermeasure Squadron One Four (HM-14) is directed to depart the flight deck on the Amphibious Assault Ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2)

The amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA-2) sits at anchor near Vieques, Puerto Rico, during Fleet Ex 1-90

World War II – Saipan

Consolidated B-24 "Liberators" Roar Over A Wide Expanse Of Water As They Head Toward Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, For Another Strike On Jap Installations On The Tiny Island, Halfway Between Saipan And The Japanese Homeland. 21 October 1944. (U.S. Air Force Number A70514AC)

"Negro assault troops await orders D-day to attack enemy shortly after they had come ashore at Saipan in the Marianas."

Photograph of the Remains of a Japanese Shinto Shrine

[No caption entered] (U.S. Air Force Number A54389AC)

[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__DI11047.JPG]