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Navy: 12-hour Fire Aboard USS New Orleans Extinguished, 2 Sailors with Minor Injuries
This post has been updated with a statement from U.S. 7th Fleet. A fire that burned for 12 hours aboard the amphibious warship USS New Orleans (LPD-18) off Okinawa, Japan, was declared extinguished early Thursday morning local time,
The amphibious warship USS New Orleans is now in port after suffering a 12-hour-long blaze off the coast of Japan.
WASHINGTON — The USS New Orleans (LPD 18) caught fire Wednesday off the coast of Okinawa, according to the U.S. Navy's 7th ...
The Sasebo naval base is among the major facilities of the Japan-based U.S. Seventh Fleet, headquartered in Yokosuka, south ...
The New Orleans has been deployed to Sasebo, Japan, since December 2019. The ship is one of the Navy’s San Antonio-class ...
Video from Japanese local media showed crews responding to a fire on the USS New Orleans near Okinawa.
A fire aboard the USS New Orleans off Okinawa injured two sailors; Navy crews and Japanese forces helped extinguish it.
The amphibious transport dock ship came back to White Beach Naval Facility under its own power, the U.S. 7th Fleet said.
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