The US Navy’s former amphibious assault ship USS Tarawa slipped beneath the waves of the Pacific Ocean in mid-July, the victim of one of the more kinetic send-offs an old warship can receive ...

Good night, USS Tarawa; Let angels sing thee to thy rest. The decommissioned amphibious assault ship was sunk on July 19. as part of this year’s Exercise Rim of the Pacific, or RIMPAC ...

The USS Tarawa — a venerable, decommissioned amphibious assault ship that was a fixture in San Diego for decades — was sunk by a missile as a part of war games off Hawaii on Friday ...

The lead ship of the class, USS Tarawa (LHA-1) entered service with the Navy in the mid-1970’s, becoming the second naval ship to be named after the World War II Battle of Tarawa. Like her ...

Other choices have been for fierce battles such as the U.S. Navy’s USS Tarawa and for prominent people; the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier is an example. In the U.S. Navy, the most ...