CHIEF PETTY Officer Keith Lebling and Journalist 2nd Class Pete Hatzakos, both of Navy Broadcasting Service, interview CAPT. G.B. McEwen, commanding officer of the amphibious assault ship USS TRIPOLI (LPH-10), regarding damage to the vessel. The TRIPOLI, now in dry dock awaiting repairs, was damaged by an Iraqi mine that the ship struck while serving as a mine-clearing platform in the northern Persian Gulf on February 18 during Operation Desert Storm. The TRIPOLI was able to continue operations after damage control crews stopped the flooding caused by the explosion
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM
Country: Bahrain(BHR)
Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Gawlowicz
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/02/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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