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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96887

USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5)


A Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle (PACV) leaves the ship's well deck, circa January-February 1967, probably in the vicinity of San Diego, California. The PACVs had seen experimental service in South Vietnam's Mekong River Delta.
The original photograph was released by Commander Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet, on 15 February 1967.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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23 July 1999