#USS OKINAWA

[lonestarflight]

The Apollo 15 Command Module Endeavour (CM-112) prior to and after being brought aboard U.S.S. OKINAWA (LPH-3).

Date: August 7, 1971

NASA ID: link, S71-42024, S71-42037

[moonwatchuniverse]

1971 ... USS Okinawa & Apollo 15 splash-down August 7, 1971 a crew member of the US Navy Underwater Demolition team checking a spear point with shark repellent onboard the USS Okinawa amphibious assault / helicopter carrier in the northern Pacific Ocean. The Apollo 15 capsule, carrying an all USAF-crew David Scott, James Irwin & Alfred Worden, splashed down less than 7 miles from the USS Okinawa with immediate recovery operations. Note the Tudor 7928 diving watch, an indispensable tool used by US Navy divers at that time! (Photo: NASA/US Navy)

[carbone14]

Dommages du pont d'envol du porte-avions USS bunker Hill (CV-17) suite à une attaque de deux avions kamikazes – Bataille d'Okinawa – Campagne des archipels Ogasawara et Ryūkyū – Guerre du Pacifique – 11 mai 1945

[alphamecha-mkii]

USS Lapwai (Okinawa Class) Ortho by Away Team Gear

[supplyside]

USS Tennessee bombarding Okinawa

[lonestarbattleship]

"Okinawa Landing - USS COLORADO" by Anthony Saunders: link

"The USS COLORADO holds the all-time record of 37 consecutive days of firing at an enemy and the record of 24 direct enemy air attacks in 62 days both while at Okinawa."

[captain-price-unofficially]

Saving the USS Franklin after being hit by two kamikazes off Okinawa, March 1945. Cruiser Pittsburg comes alongside to take off unessential personnel.

[judgemark45]

USS Idaho (BB-42), a New Mexico-class battleship shells Okinawa on 1 April 1945, easily distinguished by her tower foremast & 5”-38 Mk 30 single turrets (visible between the barrels of the forward main turrets).

Idaho was the only battleship with this configuration.

[usafphantom2]

Eastern Aircraft FM2 Wildcats of Composite Squadron VC-93 on the flight deck of escort carrier USS Petrof Bay off Okinawa, 25 Mar 1945.

@hiddenhistoryYT via X

[aviationgeek71]

Vought F4U-1D Corsair aboard USS Bunker Hill, Okinawa, 1945.

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 15 crew arrive aboard the U.S.S. OKINAWA (LPH-3) after recovery.

"Apollo 15 crew is greeted by Manned Spacecraft Center Director Robert Gilruth as they leave recovery helicopter."

"At the welcome ceremony on OKINAWA, (General Lucius D. Clay, left, Commander of the United States Air Force, Scott, Brigadier General Frank K. Everest, Commander of the U.S Air Force Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service, Worden, Irwin, and Rear Admiral Thomas B. Hayward, Commander of Task Force 130, Pacific Recovery Area."

Date: August 7, 1971

NASA ID: S71-42825, S71-42037, S71-42065, S71-42090, link, S71-42258, S71-42261, S71-42264

[pukindawgsblog]

EA-6B Prowler BuNo 162936 of VAQ-136 'Guantlets' assigned to CVW-5 'NF' aboard CV-41 USS Midway @Kadena AB, Okinawa. US Marine Corps VMA-214 A-4M Skyhawks are in the background. 1988.

[moonwatchuniverse]

1966... Gemini VIII splashdown & post recovery March 17, 1966, Gemini VIII astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott pose with the divers of the US Navy recovery team. The Gemini VIII mission was cut short after a docking problem with the unmanned Agena target rocket. Re-entry took place over China with splashdown 800 kilometers east of Okinawa. Photo taken just before debarking USS Leonard F Mason in Naha harbor in Southern Japan. Note Scott’s NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster on black velcro at his left wrist. During this mission, besides his NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster, Neil Armstrong also wore a Longines Lindberg big crown aviator watch which belonged to his childhood hero James "Jimmie" Mattern. However, in the foreground, the Navy issued Tudor 7928 diving toolwatch on stainless steel bracelet at the wrist of the diver looks far more interesting! (Photo: NASA)

[alphamecha-mkii]

USS Lapwai Flyby by White Rooster Productions

[mitchipedia]

Photo of a young woman found on the body of a kamikaze pilot that struck USS West Virginia (BB-48), April 1st 1945, off Okinawa.

[lonestarbattleship]

USS PENNSYLVANIA (BB-38) in drydock at the Bremerton Navy Shipyard. "Longtime flagship of the fleet, PENNSYLVANIA which was one of the first to be hit at Pearl Harbor and the last to be hit at Okinawa, and the only battleship to win a unit citation during the war, is slated to be used as a target ship in the forthcoming atomic bombing tests. Here, PENNSYLVANIA is shown at the Bremerton Navy Shipyard, being stripped in preparation for the tests."

Date: February 18, 1946

Temple University Library: P562136B