PO3 Rizzalle, standing, makes a list of the names of the Vietnamese people just brought aboard the amphibious assault ship USS BELLEAU WOOD (LHA-3). Marine and Navy personnel are working together to check the Vietnamese people

Marines of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM-165) aboard the amphibious assault ship USS BELLEAU WOOD (LHA-3) adjust a flight deck helmet on a Vietnamese boy, one of the group of Vietnamese people brought aboard the ship. The Vietnamese are being readied for transfer to the dock landing ship USS THOMASTON (LSD-28)

US Marine Corps Captain Dave P. Holahan calls USS BELLEAU WOOD (LHA 3) for guidance while seaarching for arms smugglers during a helicopter raid exercise. Holahan and his Marines are in Thailand as part of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit's ground combat element, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. (Substandard image)

Vietnamese People's Navy Rear Adm. Do Viet Cuong, one of three observers

US Navy Stretcher bearers remove a casualty from a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter aboard the amphibious assault ship USS BELLEAU WOOD (LHA 3) as part of a mass casualty drill. The amphibious ship Belleau Wood is participating in Exercise VALIANT USHER '98, a training exercise with Australian military forces, 17 May 1998

Members of the ship's band perform aboard the amphibious assault ship USS BELLEAU WOOD (LHA 3)

35 Vietnamese refugees wait to be taken aboard the amphibious command ship USS BLUE RIDGE (LCC-19). They are being rescued from a 35 foot fishing boat 350 miles northeast of Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, after spending eight days at sea

PO3 Rizzalle, standing, makes a list of the names of the Vietnamese people just brought aboard the amphibious assault ship USS BELLEAU WOOD (LHA-3). Marine and Navy personnel are working together to check the Vietnamese people

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Country: Indian Ocean (IOC)

Scene Camera Operator: CPL Kaeter

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files