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Bookmark or Share- H-Gram 018: 30th Anniversary of Operation Praying Mantis - NHHCContents 1. No Higher Honor: The Road to Operation Praying Mantis, 18 April 1988 2. 75th Anniversary of World War II—Operation Vengeance: Admiral Yamamoto Shot Down, 18 April 1943 3. A Presidential Unit Citation for a Failed Attack: USS Tunny's Second War Patrol, 9 April 19 4. 100th Anniversary of World War I: Dental Valor 5. 120th Anniversary of Spanish-American War: Battle of Manila Bay, 1 ...
- Operation Praying Mantis - NHHCOn 18 April 1988, the U.S. Navy launched Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian targets in the Arabian Gulf in retaliation for USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) mining four days earlier, which blew an immense hole in the ship’s hull. Ten Sailors from Samuel B. Roberts sustained severe injuries. Four were seriously burned. Commander Paul X. Rinn was hurt as well. The ship should have sunk, but ...
- Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) - NHHCUSS Samuel B. Roberts, an Oliver Hazard Perry–class guided missile frigate, was commissioned in April 1986. The frigate was the third ship to be named after Navy Coxswain Samuel Booker Roberts Jr, who posthumously received the Navy Cross for rescuing stranded Marines from Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II. In April 1988, the ship participated in Operation Earnest Will in ...
- H-Gram 018: 30th Anniversary of Operation Praying Mantis - NHHCnor: The Road to Operation Praying Mantis, 18 April 1988"Mr. Secretary, I think we've shed enough blood today," said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admi. al William Crowe to Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci. With that, the primary target of Operation Praying Mantis, the Iranian frigate Sabalan, dead in the water with a laser-guided ...
- Enterprise VIII (CVAN-65) - NHHCCommodore Perkins departed Enterprise for embarkation on board Lynde McCormick, Enterprise becoming the Anti-air Warfare Commander for Operation Praying Mantis, the measured response adopted by the U.S., aimed at attacking Sassan, as well as two other Iranian oil platforms, Sirri and Raksh. President Reagan and Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr ...
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