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Three days after departing from it's home port in Norfolk, Virginia the USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) arrives outside the French Quarter of New Orleans to serve as a floating launch pad for amphibious and air operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Hurricane made landfall near Buras, Louisiana on August 29th 2005 with winds up to 230km/h and by the following day had broken two New Orleans levees covering 80 percent of the city with water from nearby Lake Pontchartrain. (US Air National Guard Photo by TSgt Paul Gorman) (Released by MAJ Ed Bush, 102nd PAD)

PHOTO BY: MAJ Ed Bush, nd PAD
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