| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer 
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                                | gptkbp:aircraftCarried | helicopters 
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                                | gptkbp:awards | gptkb:Meritorious_Unit_Commendation gptkb:National_Defense_Service_Medal
 gptkb:Republic_of_Vietnam_Campaign_Medal
 gptkb:Vietnam_Service_Medal
 gptkb:Humanitarian_Service_Medal
 gptkb:Navy_Expeditionary_Medal
 gptkb:Kuwait_Liberation_Medal_(Kuwait)
 gptkb:Kuwait_Liberation_Medal_(Saudi_Arabia)
 gptkb:Sea_Service_Deployment_Ribbon
 gptkb:Navy_Unit_Commendation
 gptkb:Armed_Forces_Expeditionary_Medal
 gptkb:Southwest_Asia_Service_Medal
 
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                                | gptkbp:builder | gptkb:Puget_Sound_Naval_Shipyard 
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                                | gptkbp:class | gptkb:Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer 
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                                | gptkbp:commissioned | 26 August 1961 
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                                | gptkbp:countryOfOrigin | gptkb:United_States 
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                                | gptkbp:crewComplement | officers and enlisted: 650 
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                                | gptkbp:decommissioned | 14 July 1993 
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                                | gptkbp:displacement | 18,474 tons (full load) 
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                                | gptkbp:fate | scrapped 
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                                | gptkbp:homeport | gptkb:Norfolk,_Virginia 
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                                | gptkbp:hullNumber | gptkb:LPH-2 
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                                | gptkbp:launched | 17 September 1960 
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                                | gptkbp:length | 592 feet 
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                                | gptkbp:namedAfter | Battle of Iwo Jima 
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                                | gptkbp:notableEvent | served as flagship during Operation Eagle Claw first ship designed and built from the keel up as an amphibious assault ship
 
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                                | gptkbp:operator | gptkb:United_States_Navy 
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                                | gptkbp:participatedIn | gptkb:Vietnam_War gptkb:Operation_Eagle_Claw
 
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                                | gptkbp:propulsion | steam turbines 
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                                | gptkbp:scrapped | 1995 
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                                | gptkbp:seatingCapacity | 1,900 Marines 
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                                | gptkbp:speed | 21 knots 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:USS_Princeton_(LPH-5) gptkb:USS_Valley_Forge_(LPH-8)
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 7 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) 
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