DUBROVNIK HARBOUR DUBROVNIK, Oct 30 (Hina) - A United States Navy aircraft carrier "USS George Washington" on Monday sailed into the south Adriatic harbour of Dubrovnik where it plans to stay anchored until November 3. Commanding
officers of the fighter aircraft, Rear Admiral Garry Roughead, will be received by leaders of Dubrovnik-Neretva County and the city of Dubrovnik. He will also visit to Command of the Fourth Military District of the Croatian Armed Forces in Kupari. Rear Admiral Roughead will lay a wreath in memory of all killed during the Homeland Defence war at Dubrovnik's Boninovo cemetery. The US carrier is the second ship of this kind to have visited Dubrovnik this year. The ship will be open for visitors on Tuesday and Thursday. The carrier, high as a 24 story building, carries 80 aircraft of the 17th airforce regiment, which has been in 600 combat operations so far. Among the 6,000 sailors and officers, there are 300 wo
DUBROVNIK, Oct 30 (Hina) - A United States Navy aircraft carrier
"USS George Washington" on Monday sailed into the south Adriatic
harbour of Dubrovnik where it plans to stay anchored until November
3.
Commanding officers of the fighter aircraft, Rear Admiral Garry
Roughead, will be received by leaders of Dubrovnik-Neretva County
and the city of Dubrovnik. He will also visit to Command of the
Fourth Military District of the Croatian Armed Forces in Kupari.
Rear Admiral Roughead will lay a wreath in memory of all killed
during the Homeland Defence war at Dubrovnik's Boninovo cemetery.
The US carrier is the second ship of this kind to have visited
Dubrovnik this year.
The ship will be open for visitors on Tuesday and Thursday.
The carrier, high as a 24 story building, carries 80 aircraft of the
17th airforce regiment, which has been in 600 combat operations so
far.
Among the 6,000 sailors and officers, there are 300 women aboard the
carrier. They do not participate in combat operations, but some are
pilots.
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