USS Peleliu LHA5 - WesPac1988 (Full Video)

A mashup of my personal videos that I took while stationed on the USS Peleliu during my 1988 West Pacific (WesPac) Deployment.
The movie includes:
- Hong Kong liberty
- Flight Deck Operations
- CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters
- CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters
- UH-1N Huey helicopters
- LCAC operations
- Sea Wiz Machine guns (150 rounds / sec)
- Steel Beach Cookout
- Captains Kitchen footage
- Tiger Cruise w/ my Dad and Brother
- Homecoming back to Long Beach California
There is plenty of random shipboard footage and other typical daily activities while underway at sea that should bring back some memories for anyone stationed on the Big 5
I have also not included our onshore activities in this movies and I will need to do much editing especially from our Philippines visit, but I would love to put more content online one of these days.
I have over 20 some hours of other footage taken during my 4 year Navy stint, including tons of Fight Deck operations, another WesPac (1990) and even several helicopter crashes, Vietnamese refugee rescues, Earthquake relief efforts in San Francisco, among other things...
I hope this can be enjoyed by anyone who served time!
PELELIU TECHNICAL DATA
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General Characteristics: Keel Laid: November 12, 1976
Launched: November 25, 1978
Commissioned: May 3, 1980
Decommissioned: March 31, 2015
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, West Bank, Pascagoula, Miss.
Propulsion system: two boilers, two geared steam turbines
Propellers: two
Aircraft elevators: two
Length: 833,34 feet (254 meters)
Flight Deck Width: 132,2 feet (40.3 meters)
Beam: 106,6 feet (32.5 meters)
Draft: 26,25 feet (8 meters)
Displacement: approx. 39,300 tons full load
Speed: 24 knots
Aircraft: (depends upon mission)
6 AV-8B Harrier attack planes or 6 AV-8B Harrier attack planes
4 AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopters 12 CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters
12 CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters 9 CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters
9 CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters
4 UH-1N Huey helicopters
Crew: Ship: 82 officers, 882 enlisted Marine Detachment: 1,900+
Armament: two Rolling Airframe Missile Systems (RAM), four 25mm Mk 38 Gun Mounts, two Phalanx CIWS, five .50 Cal. Mounts

[@usmcloco321]

RIP LCpl Mark A Marquez, 19 yoa, Milwaukee WI.
11/22/87
Thank you for sharing this video!

[@David-oh6hr]

RIP brother.....Hey LOCO

[@usmcloco321]

@@David-oh6hr Hey brother! Pretty cool video, the flyover at the end is impressive... you guys kicked ass!

[@colinruedger7222]

RIP. I was in Charlie Company with him. I can’t remember what platoon he was in, possibly 2nd. I was in first.

[@David-oh6hr]

I was on that deployment. 164 AVI....Some familiar faces....Thanks for posting this...Brings back many fond memories... Semper Fi

[@shook8855]

I was born in 1988 and served on LHA-5. WesPac 2010 with HMM-165 on their last deployment before converting to VMM-165.

[@mattc8347]

I was crash and salvage from 2011-2015 on the peleliu 👍🇺🇸

[@elvingrover7957]

I remember them playing "on the road again" when we left most ports. thanks for posting. From another v-3 hanger rat.

[@dirkwipperman1981]

I was on that deployment, HMM-164, flying the CH-46. Urragh

[@David-oh6hr]

So was I...Hey Wip! 164 AVI

[@mwhwenfab]

Thanks for taking the time to put this together and posting it all these years later. I was on this cruise, Air Dept. V-3 Div (Hangar Rat). This definitely brought back some memories.

[@robertr9829]

That brought back memories. I did West Pacs ‘83 and ‘85.

[@mbugz60]

I was with Dragons 1/1 attached to Charlie Company on this West Pac. I remember the Peleliu well.

[@janesanford9103]

I was on this float with Charlie-1/1. Great memories.

[@jsamkin9233]

Thanks for posting this. I was at MP1. Machinist Mate

[@grucker01]

I was there.. Air Dept, V3 - LPO

[@highdeserthikes]

I was there too. With Robert Hill. 87-89

[@zacharyvonroeder6873]

I was on that pump, Bravo 1/1!

[@KyleYoung-l5j]

I was there, it was pretty badass.

[@timex7155]

i was there. boat division

[@phantasm81]

Was on this ship for about 3 weeks (was actually on the comstock) or so in 2001 right before we got off and entered Afghanistan by way of Pakistan right after 9/11 in mid November. I was also on this ship in 2003 during my 2nd deployment to Iraq. Good times. That gym was awesome! I also remember us doing 226 8 count bodybuilders on the flight deck to celebrate the Marine Corps bday!

[@patrickkreisel5176]

I was on this float with Alpha 1-1. We left the Bristol County in Okinawa and boarded the Peliliu for Team Spirit.

[@bamnjphoto]

Thanks for posting this memory, I was in Deck Dept tying that big baby up

[@oneloveyessah]

Saw myself in it

[@edilbertopena888]

I was on board during this Deployment

[@varmenta1987]

Yep me too radioman

[@edilbertopena888]

I was there

[@virgiliogabuten6393]

RIP Marcelo Belen

[@richardcorn2813]

I was on this float with c 1/1.