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26k | Tortuga (LSD-46) underway, date and place unknown. US Navy photo |
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49k | Tortuga (LSD-46) underway, date and place unknown. US Navy photo |
Joe Radigan MACM, USN Ret | |
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123k | A U.S. Navy SH-60 Seahawk helicopter takes off from the deck of Tortuga (LSD-46) while she is moored pierside in New Orleans, 5 September 2005.. Tortuga has been transporting Hurricane Katrina victims to the ship where they are given hot meals, showers and beds to sleep in. The Navy's involvement in the humanitarian assistance operations is being led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in conjunction with the Department of Defense. US Navy photo # 050905-N-6436W-140 by PH2 Michael B. Watkins. |
Chet Morris | |
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63k | Tortuga (LSD-46) moored at Naval Support Activity New Orleans in support of Hurricane Katrina humanitarian assistance operations. The Navy's involvement in the humanitarian assistance operations is being led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in conjunction with the Department of Defense. US Navy photo # 050910-N-5526M-004 by PH1 Robert McRill. |
Jack Treutle and Chet Morris | |
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716k | Tortuga (LSD-46) is assisted by Manistee (YTB-782) and other harbor tugs as she arrives at
Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan (CFAY), 1 September 2007.
Torrtuga participated in a simulated evacuation of stranded citizens from Tokyo's Kasai Kaihin Park to the ship via landing craft air cushion LCACs as part of a Tokyo Metropolitan Government disaster relief drill. This is the second year that the U.S. Navy has participated in this type of drill.
US Navy photo # 070901-N-9520G-003 YOKOSUKA, Japan (Sept. 1, 2007) by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nardelito Gervacio. Photo from the Navy Newsstand. |
Chet Morris | |
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2256k | Tortuga (LSD-46) gets underway from Fleet Activities Sasebo departing on fall patrol. Tortuga is a dock landing ship with Task Force 76, the Navy’s only permanently forward-deployed amphibious force, headquartered at White Beach, Okinawa, Japan, with an operating detachment in Sasebo.
US Navy photo # 070924-N-4124C-025 SASEBO, Japan (Sept. 24, 2007) by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Adam R. Cole. Photo from Navy Newsstand |
Lee Wahler | |
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