Port side aerial view of the US Navy (USN) Austin Class Amphibious Transport Dock USS DUBUQUE (LPD 8) steaming to its position with a couple of USN CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopters on its landing pad during Exercise RIM OF THE PACIFIC 2004. RIMPAC 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. RIMPAC is intended 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
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Michelle R. Hammond, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
06/07/2004
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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