File:USS Point Defiance (LSD-31) underway in 1958.jpg

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Description The U.S. Navy dock landing ship USS Point Defiance (LSD-31) underway in the South Pacific in 1958. Point Defiance became one of the first rocket-launching surface ships to support the 1958 International Geophysical Year Solar Eclipse Expedition to the South Pacific. Launchers on deck fired eight Nike-Asp sounding rockets to collect scientific data during the eclipse.
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Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine April 1959, p. 11.
Author U.S. Navy
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(Reusing this file)		 "All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official Department of Defense photographs unless otherwise designated."

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