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	6k	Harold Edward Holt (5 August 1908 - presumed dead 17 December 1967) was an Australian politician who became the 17th Prime Minister of Australia in 1966. His term as Prime Minister dramatically ended in December of the following year when he disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea and was presumed drowned. Holt spent 32 years in Parliament, including many years as a senior Cabinet Minister, but was Prime Minister for only 22 months. This necessarily limited his personal and political impact, especially when compared to his immediate predecessor Robert Menzies, who was PM for a total of 18 years. Today, Holt is mainly remembered for the sensational circumstances of his death, for his controversial role in expanding Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War and for his famous (or infamous) "All the way with LBJ" quote. In the opinion of his biographer Tom Frame, this has tended to obscure the many achievements of Holt's long and distinguished political career. USS Harold E. Holt (DE 1074) was the first ship named in his honor, she was also the first American warship to bear the name of a foreign head of state. (Photo and complete biography at Wikipedia)		Navsource
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	47k	May 1975: Overhead pic of the USS Harold E. Holt (DE 1074) towing away the American cargo ship Mayaguez, after its capture from the Khmer Rouge by a boarding party of Marines, following the attack on Koh Tang Island.		Robert Hurst
	233k	15 June 1982: NavSta, Subic Bay, Luzon, P.I. - An aerial view of the U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility. Berthed at the shipyard are the Knox-class frigates USS Roark (FF 1053) and Harold E. Holt. Moored alongside them is the guided missile frigate USS Brooke (FFG 1). (U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SN-84-06232 by PH1 David McLean from the Defense Visual Information Center)		Navsource
	155k	2 July 1986: Honolulu, Hi. - A port bow view of Harold E. Holt in port. (U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-86-08679 by PH2 Lancaster from the DVIC)
	179k	31 May 1996: Pearl Harbor, Hi. - Port quarter view of the decommissioned guided missile frigate Duncan moored with other reserve ships at the Ships Intermediate Maintenance Facility (SIMF) in the middle loch at Pearl Harbor. To the right are the Knox class frigates Harold Holt (FF 1074), Whipple (FF 1062) and one unidentified unit. (US Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-97-01130 by Don S. Mongomery, USN (ret.), from the DVIC)
	29k	10 July 2002: RimPac 2002 Sinkex, Harold E. Holt's final farewell		Peter Skoutas
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Cruise Patch Courtesy of Mike Smolinski	Cruise Patch Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

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