USS Guadalcanal LPH-7 Amphibious assault ship (helicopter) Navy patch Defense Contractor https://www

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USS Guadalcanal LPH-7 Amphibious assault ship (helicopter) Navy patch Defense Contractor https://wwwThis patch is 4 inches wide by 5 inches high with cut edges and cheesecloth back. This patch is from the Vietnam War era. USS Guadalcanal (LPH 7), the third Iwo Jima class amphibious assault ship (helicopter), was launched by the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 16 March 1963, sponsored by Zola Shoup, wife of General Shoup, the former Commandant of the Marine Corps; and commissioned 20 July 1963, Captain Dale K. Peterson in command. It was the second ship