ISIS, the US Navy returns to battle: the USS Truman launches its first raid from the Persian Gulf

(To Franco Iacch)
30/12/15

The Nimitz “USS class aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman"Launched its first attack from the Persian Gulf against the Islamic State. That's what they communicate from the Pentagon.

- F / A-18 of the Seventh Carrier Air Wing Squadron have carried out a joint attack with the Flurry French launched by Charles de GaulleThe "Lone Wolf" (nickname of the Truman) will remain in service for seven months.

Il Battle group of Truman left Norfolk, Virginia, the 16 last November. It is composed of the Seventh Carrier Air Wing Squadron, the 28 ° Destroyer Squadron, the missile class cruiser Ticonderoga USS Anzio, from the class missile destroyers Arleigh A. Burke, USS Bulkeley, USS Gonzalez, USS Gravely and USS ramage and two class attack submarines Los Angeles.

(photo: US Navy)