Port bow view of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) DURANCE CLASS: Underway Replenishment Tanker, Her Majestys Australian Ship (HMAS) SUCCESS (OR 304), underway in the Pacific Ocean, during a Replenishment At Sea (RAS), conducted in support of Exercise RIMPAC 2004. The US Navy (USN) Amphibious Assault Ship, USS TARAWA (LAH 1) is underway in the background. RIMPAC is the largest international maritime exercise conducted in the waters around the Hawaiian Islands, and is designed to enhance the tactical proficiency of participating units in a wide array of combined operations at sea, while enhancing stability in the Pacific Rim region
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: RIMPAC 2004
Base: USS Tarawa (LHA 1)
State: Hawaii (HI)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Jane West, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
11/07/2004
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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