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Old 06-28-12, 02:27 PM   #7
geetrue
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Where is she now?

After a terrible boiler accident that cost ten crew members their lives in 1990. She was sold for scrap.

Iwo Jima was decommissioned on 14 July 1993, and she was sold for scrap on 18 December 1995.

India didn't even want her due to a built in vibration after 15 kts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iwo_Jima_(LPH-2
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