USS Anzio (CG-68)
USS Anzio (CG-68) sails past the Statue of Liberty in May 2004, during Fleet Week.
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| Name: | Anzio |
| Namesake: | Battle of Anzio |
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 United States Navy
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| Ordered: | 16 April 1987 |
| Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
| Laid down: | 21 August 1989 |
| Launched: | 2 November 1990 |
| Acquired: | 10 February 1992 |
| Commissioned: | 2 May 1992 |
| Homeport: | NAVSTA Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. |
| Motto: | "Stand and Fight" |
| Status: | in active service |
| Badge: |  |
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| Class and type: | Ticonderoga-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | Approx. 9,600 long tons (9,800 t) full load |
| Length: | 567 feet (173 m) |
| Beam: | 55 feet (16.8 meters) |
| Draft: | 34 feet (10.2 meters) |
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| Speed: | 32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
| Complement: | 33 officers, 27 Chief Petty Officers, and approx. 340 enlisted |
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| Aircraft carried: | 2 × Sikorsky SH-60B or MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. |
USS Anzio (CG-68) is a Ticonderoga-class cruiser guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy, named for the site of a beachhead invasion of Italy by Allied troops from 22 January to 23 May 1944. Her keel was laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula, Mississippi on 21 August 1989, she was launched on 2 November 1990, and commissioned on 2 May 1992 under Captain H. Wyman Howard. Anzio operates out of Norfolk in Virginia.
The ship is named for the battle of Anzio in Italy, the site of an Allied amphibious assault during Operation Shingle as part of the Italian Campaign of World War II. One other ship, an escort aircraft carrier, had been named USS Anzio.
On 6 April 2000, Anzio, along with another cruiser and the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, was participating in an exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean, about 250 miles off the coast of Israel. In an unannounced missile test, the Israel Defense Forces fired a Jericho-1 medium-range ballistic missile from a test facility in Yavne, which landed 40 miles from the ship. The missile was detected by the ship's radar, and the crew briefly thought that they were under attack.
On 9 January 2003 Anzio was pre-deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Ordered first to the eastern Mediterranean Sea for the initial phase of President George W. Bush's Shock and Awe strategy (during which the U.S. Navy deployed to obliterate and defeat the Iraq military before ground forces were sent in). Once the Anzio completed her mission in the eastern Mediterranean, she forward-deployed to the Persian Gulf. Once the Anzio arrived in the Gulf, she had marked her 45th straight day at sea. In the Gulf, Anzio continued carrier-flight support operations and coastal surveillance. After President Bush announced major combat had concluded in the Iraq War, on 1 May 2003, Anzio was relieved of her duties, returning home on 3 July 2003 after 175 days at sea. In March 2003 she was assigned to Cruiser-Destroyer Group Eight.
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