3/7/1988: NO wonder Iran says "Death to America"
 

Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Vincennes CG-49 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...o_Oct_1988.jpg +https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...MR_in_1987.jpg + https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...-Scott2335.jpg =$61.8 million, amounting to $213,103.45 per passenger, in compensation to the families of the Iranian victims. Iran Air continues to use flight number 655 on the Tehran to Dubai route as a memorial to the 290 victims. This event ranks eighth among the deadliest disasters in aviation history; the incident retains the highest death toll of any aviation incident in the Persian Gulf. Hormuz Strait is still a 'hair-trigger' powder keg today! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Ribbon.svg.png Combat Action Award given for 3/7/88 to ship. :hmmm:

Could it be that the Russian's are still upset with us?

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US Navy destroyer intercepts Russian cargo ship transporting missiles to Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962

US Carriers of the Third Fleet at Ulithi Atoll, Dec 8, 1944.

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Loaded for bear
 

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USS San Francisco in Apra Harbor, Guam, Jan. 12, 2005, after colliding with undersea mount