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9 月 27th, 2009 by wallpaperdesktop2993Amphibious rapine steamer USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6)Download Full Size Wallpaper huge: 1920 x 1200 huge: 1920 x 10801680 x 1050 huge: 1440 x 900 huge: 1280 x 800USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) is an Amphibious Assault Ship, and the third United States Navy steamer of that mention. It was named in honor of John Paul Jones’ great frigate, which he had named the French idiolect tantamount of “father or older retainer Richard,” in honor of Benjamin Franklin, the U.S. Ambassador to France at the stretch. The mention Bonhomme Richard is derived from the draft mention of Benjamin Franklin, the beget of Poor Richard’s Almanac. Bonhomme Richard (”Revolutionary Gator”) is a Wasp-class amphibious rapine steamer currently homeported in San Diego, California.
She was launched on 14 March 1997, delivered to the Navy on 12 May 1998, and commissioned on 15 August 1998. The arrangement to dilate her was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding on 11 December 1992, and her keel was laid down on 18 April 1995. Bonhomme Richard played two noteworthy roles in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
First, it offloaded more than 1,000 Marines and utensils from the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines into Kuwait. Then after delivering her make a motion and remove helicopters, troops, and vehicles she took up belief ethical miles substandard the coastline of Kuwait and became one-liner of two Harrier Carriers along with USS Bataan (LHD-5) in the Persian Gulf-launching AV-8B Harrier erase aircraft into Iraq. During Operation Iraqi Freedom the Bonhomme Richard launched more than 800 sorties, including 547 clash launches. Pilots from Marine Attack Squadrons 211 and 311, embarked aboard Bonhomme Richard, expended more than 175,000 pounds (79,000 kg) of ordnance, providing decayed haughtiness nutriment to the Marines on the establish and during doomed strikes in Iraq.