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USS ''Anzio'' (CG-68) is a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy, named for the site of a beachhead invasion of Italy by Allied troops from 22 January to 23 May 1944. Her keel was laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula, Mississippi on 21 August 1989, she was launched on 2 November 1990, and commissioned on 2 May 1992 under Captain H. Wyman Howard. ''Anzio'' operates out of Norfolk in Virginia. ==History== The ship is named for the battle of Anzio in Italy, the site of an Allied amphibious assault during Operation Shingle as part of the Italian Campaign of World War II. One other ship, an escort aircraft carrier, had been named USS ''Anzio''. On 6 April 2000, ''Anzio'', along with another cruiser and the aircraft carrier USS ''Dwight D. Eisenhower, was participating in an exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean, about 250 miles off the coast of Israel. In an unannounced missile test, the Israel Defense Forces fired a Jericho-1 medium-range ballistic missile from a test facility in Yavne, which landed 40 miles from the ship. The missile was detected by the ship's radar, and the crew briefly thought that they were under attack.〔https://fas.org/news/israel/e20000502pentagon.htm〕〔(DefenseLink News: News transcript ), 2 May 2000〕 On 9 January 2003 ''Anzio'' was pre-deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Ordered first to the eastern Mediterranean Sea for the initial phase of President George W. Bush's Shock and Awe strategy (during which the U.S. Navy deployed to obliterate and defeat the Iraq military before ground forces were sent in). Once the ''Anzio'' completed her mission in the eastern Mediterranean, she forward-deployed to the Persian Gulf. Once the ''Anzio'' arrived in the Gulf, she had marked her 45th straight day at sea. In the Gulf, ''Anzio'' continued carrier-flight support operations and coastal surveillance. After President Bush announced major combat had concluded in the Iraq War, on 1 May 2003, ''Anzio'' was relieved of her duties, returning home on 3 July 2003 after 175 days at sea. In March 2003 she was assigned to Cruiser-Destroyer Group Eight.〔http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/usa/surface.htm, Retrieved May 2012〕 In 2004, ''Anzio'' participated at the annual Fleet Week in New York City. In January 2007, the warship was sent to the coast of Somalia to conduct anti terrorist operations as part of the USS ''Dwight D. Eisenhower'' task force. On 16 February 2007, ''Anzio'' was awarded the 2006 Battle "E" award.〔(U.S. Navy: Surface Force Ships, Crews Earn Battle "E" ), 19 February 2007〕 ''Anzio'' was anchored and a participant for 'Windjammer Days' in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 25–26 June 2008. ''Anzio'' has served as the flagship of the horn of Africa international anti-piracy Combined Task Force 151.〔(U.S. Assumes Command of Counter-piracy Task Force )〕 On 15 October 2009 a team from the cruiser working with U.S. Coast Guard personnel from Maritime Safety and Security Team 91104 seized a skiff carrying an estimated 4 tons of hashish worth an estimated $28 million about southwest of Salalah, Oman.〔http://www.military.com/news/article/navy-news/uss-anzio-seizes-4-tons-of-narcotics.html?ESRC=navy-a.nl〕〔http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=685013 MSST 91104 stops drugs in Gulf of Aden〕 The boarding team destroyed the drugs by dumping them into the ocean and released the skiff's crew.〔''Stars and Stripes'', "(Navy seizes 4 tons of narcotics at sea )", 21 October 2009.〕 ''Anzio'' embarked Detachment 2 of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 46 (HSM-46) for its 2012 operations. ''Anzio'' was tentatively scheduled to be decommissioned and designated for disposal on 31 March 2013.〔http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/03/navy-11-ships-to-be-decommissioned-in-fiscal-2013-031412w/〕 However, ''Anzio'' was retained under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013.〔("US Navy to retain four Ticonderoga-class cruisers in service" ). Naval-Technology.com. 28 September 2012〕〔(National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 ), p. 5.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Anzio (CG-68)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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