Ship's Log
USS Tarawa LHA-1: The Amphibious Threat That Helped Win Desert...
USS Tarawa's amphibious threat off Kuwait tied down Iraqi divisions during Desert Storm in 1991 without a single Marine going ashore — deterrence that shaped the ground war's outcome.
USS Memphis SSN-691: Cold War Patrols and the Silent Service...
USS Memphis, a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine, spent the Cold War tracking Soviet submarines beneath the North Atlantic on classified patrols out of Groton, Connecticut.
USS San Jacinto CG-56: The Opening Tomahawk Salvo of Operation...
USS San Jacinto fired the Red Sea's first Tomahawk cruise missiles of Operation Desert Storm at 2:38 AM on January 17, 1991, opening the coalition air campaign against Iraq.
USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71: The 1991 Operation Desert Storm Deployment
USS Theodore Roosevelt deployed to the Red Sea for Operation Desert Storm in 1991, her air wing flying the A-7 Corsair's final combat sorties in Navy service.
USS Forrestal CV-59: The 1967 Fire and the Safety Reforms...
A Zuni rocket accidentally fired on USS Forrestal's flight deck at Yankee Station on July 29, 1967, killing 134 sailors. The fire that followed reshaped Navy flight deck safety.
USS Iwo Jima LHD-7: The 2006 Lebanon Evacuation and the...
USS Iwo Jima helped evacuate more than 14,000 Americans from Beirut during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, using her amphibious assault capabilities for one of the largest NEOs in Navy history.