Looking for detailed photos

try looking here.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/lph-2-gallery.htm

http://navysite.de/lph/index.html

I'm curious to know what these ships have been replaced with now that the existing LPH classification ships have all been retired. Also, is the deck suitable for some classes of STOL planes or is it only useful for VTOL craft?

The LPD17 San Antonio class is the latest Gator ship to join the US Fleet.
It is designed to fill the new Littoral combat theater.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/lpd-17.htm

http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/0917.htm

the lha tarawa class replaces the lph iwo jima class. the lhd-1 wasp is the follow on of the lha tarawa class
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/lha-1.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/lhd-1.htm

Hi,

I´m looking for detailed photos of the deck and island, because I´m building one of these ships in 1/72.
Could anybody help me?

Greetings Andreas

I have cruise books from USS Okinawa (LPH 3) in the mid-1970s with photos. All the LPHs had very similar electronics fits and similar islands (except Inchon had no flag bridge).

To reply to another question here, I never heard that any aircraft routinely operated in STOL mode with an LPH. The flight deck and electronics were not designed for STOL. It would be difficult even to park all the helicopters to clear a runway. It's conceivable that experiments were done, perhaps with the AV-8 and OV-10 but I've never seen a photograph of that.

At 1/72 your model will be over 2.5m or 8 feet long. That's BIG.

Check out this page:

http://wmunderway.8m.com/seaphoto/catalog/amphib.html

I am reluctant to publicise my own site here, but it is directly relevant to the poster's question.

Cordially,

Kurt

Hello

and thanks to all of you, who gave me tips. If there is somebody else, who could celp me, please contact me here in the forum.

Nice day

Andreas