Category: USS Peleliu

  • Farewell to a Legend (LHA-5)

    Farewell to a Legend  (LHA-5)

    On May 1st 1996 I checked aboard my first US Naval Ship, The USS Peleliu LHA-5, aka The Iron Nickel. We sailors had some other names for her, The ‘Liu, Living Hell Afloat, Cell Block 5, The Death Star, ect… but we loved her, and our fellow shipmates.  I am using the positive form of…