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Landing Fields - Hawaii - Maui Island

Several tugboats assist the US Navy (USN) Nimitz class Aircraft Carrier USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN 74) to the Navy Supply Depot pier during a port call to the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii (HI). The USN Amphibious Assault Ship USS TARAWA (LHA 1) is immediately in the background and a USN Whidbey Island LSD 41 Class Dock Landing Ship is in the next pier. The STENNIS is visiting Pearl Harbor to take part in Rim of the Pacific (AC) 2004. AC is the largest international maritime exercise in the waters around the Hawaiian Islands. This years exercise includes seven participating nations: Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States....

[Assignment: 48-DPA-09-29-08_SOI_K_Isl_Conf_PM] Insular Areas Health Summit [("The Future of Health Care in the Insular Areas: A Leaders Summit") at the Marriott Hotel in] Honolulu, Hawaii, where Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [joined senior federal health officials and leaders of the U.S. territories and freely associated states to discuss strategies and initiatives for advancing health care in those communities.] [48-DPA-09-29-08_SOI_K_Isl_Conf_PM_DOI_0710.JPG]

A Pearl Harbor survivor (foreground, right) pauses to reflect at the USS NEVADA Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 8, 2006, during the joint Navy/National Park Service ceremonies commemorating the 65th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. More than 1,500 Pearl Harbor survivors, their families and their friends from around the nation joined the more than 2,000 distiguished guests and the general public for the annual Pearl Harbor observance. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST 2nd Class Lindsay J. Switzer) (Released)

[Assignment: 48-DPA-09-29-08_SOI_K_Isl_Conf_PM] Insular Areas Health Summit [("The Future of Health Care in the Insular Areas: A Leaders Summit") at the Marriott Hotel in] Honolulu, Hawaii, where Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [joined senior federal health officials and leaders of the U.S. territories and freely associated states to discuss strategies and initiatives for advancing health care in those communities.] [48-DPA-09-29-08_SOI_K_Isl_Conf_PM_DOI_0683.JPG]

Honolulu (Hawaii), people in boats on the Pacific Ocean

[Assignment: 48-DPA-12-6-06_K_CPix_Kemp_HI] Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides] to Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii [for commemorative events on the 65th anniversary of the Japanese attack] [48-DPA-12-6-06_K_CPix_Kemp_HI_IMG_0233.JPG]

Interior view of Sacred Heart Church, Honolulu, Hawaii, ca. 1920-1940