USS Makin Island (LHD-8) Framed Ship Photo

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USS Makin Island (LHD-8) Framed Ship PhotoUSS Makin Island (LHD 8) is the eighth and final ship of the Wasp class, commissioned October 24, 2009 at Naval Air Station Pensacola the first U. S. Navy ship christened in Florida. She honors Carlson's Raiders, the U. S. Marine Raiders who struck Makin Island in the Gilbert Islands in August 1942 in one of the first Allied offensive actions in the Pacific. Makin Island introduced a hybrid electric drive combining gas turbines with auxiliary electric

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