1.   By that point, the American presence in the Pacific was an awesome thing, remembers Herb Owens, a sailor assigned to an amphibious landing ship.

2.   He joined the Navy and in World War II commanded an amphibious landing ship at the battles of Leyte Gulf and Okinawa.

3.   Suicide pilots crash into the destroyers Drayton and Mugford and two landing ships, sinking one.

4.   He was taken into custody by American forces and flown to the amphibious landing ship USS Peleliu, in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Pakistan.

5.   Malaysia previously had bought two U.S. landing ship tanks -- the KD Raja Jarom and KD Bangi.

6.   The landing ship was given to the former Nationalist government during World War II.

7.   The second ship is another landing ship, the USS Nashville.

8.   Abdul Aziz said the US has deployed the USS Anchorage, a landing ship for the exercise.

9.   Accompanying the Guam were two landing ships, the Portland and the Trenton.

10.   Journalists who were allowed to tour the USS Germantown notioats circled the massive landing ship, warning off curious fishermen who wanted to get a closer look.