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Apollo 13 Splashdown

A perilous space flight comes to a smooth ending with the safe splashdown of the Apollo 13 Command Module (CM) in the south Pacific Ocean, only four miles from the prime recovery ship, the U.S.S. Iwo Jima. The Command Module "Odyssey" with Commander, James A. Lovell Jr., Command Module pilot, John L. Swigert Jr. and Lunar Module pilot Fred W. Haise Jr. splashed down at 12:07:44 p.m. (CST), April 17, 1970. The crewmen were transported by helicopter from the immediate recovery area to the U.S.S. Iwo Jima..Photo by NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - A serviceman of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces is in a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - A serviceman of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces is in a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - A serviceman of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces who goes by the call sign "Pedro" smokes a cigarette, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - A tank of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces is camouflaged in the forest, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - A serviceman of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces is in a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - A serviceman of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces mans a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - Two servicemen of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces stand in the hatches of a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - Two servicemen of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces stand in the hatches of a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - A serviceman of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces mans a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - A serviceman of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces mans a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - Two servicemen of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces stand in the hatches of a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - A serviceman of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces mans a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - A serviceman of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces stands near a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - Servicemen of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces man a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - A serviceman of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces mans a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - A serviceman of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces is in a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - Servicemen of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces man a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - Servicemen of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces man a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - Servicemen of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces man a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - Servicemen of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces man a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - A serviceman of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces mans a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - Servicemen of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces man a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - Servicemen of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces man a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - Servicemen of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces man a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - A serviceman of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces mans a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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Tank crewmen defend Ukraine against Russian occupiers in Kharkiv region

KHARKIV REGION, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 - Servicemen of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade of Ukraines Land Forces man a tank, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)

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MSDF chief of staff Sakai

Adm. Ryo Sakai, chief of staff of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, holds a press conference in Tokyo on June 11, 2024, after the Defense Ministry declared dead seven crewmen listed as missing following a collision between two Japanese MSDF patrol helicopters during a night drill in the Pacific Ocean in April.

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MSDF helicopter loses contact over Sea of Japan, 3 aboard missing

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 27 Kyodo - A Maritime Self-Defense Force escort ship searches for three missing crewmen of an MSDF helicopter in waters off Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in this photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane on Aug. 27, 2017. The helicopter dropped out of contact the previous night and is feared to have crashed in the area.

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2 Chinese crewmen nabbed over freighter-boat collision

YONAGO, Japan - Photo shows a container ship moored at Sakai port in Tottori Prefecture on April 19, 2012. The Japan Coast Guard arrested two Chinese crew members of the container ship the same day over a fatal collision with a Japanese fishing boat off Suzu, Ishikawa prefecture.

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Memorial service held for U.S. crewmen of B-29 shot down over Chiba

KISARAZU, Japan - Two Buddhist priests recite a sutra during the first memorial service held in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, on Aug. 8 for 12 American airmen who died when their B-29 bomber was shot down by Japanese artillery fire during World War II. About 150 Japanese and American nationals attended the service, among them Col. Edward McAllister of the U.S. air force, an attache at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.

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Replenishment ship leaves for Indian Ocean on antiterror mission

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Family members of crewmen bid farewell as the 8,150-ton replenishment ship Tokiwa of the Maritime Self-Defense Force sets sail from its home port in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 14 for a new round of antiterrorism mission in the Indian Ocean.

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Malaysia police interview released crewmen

PENANG, Malaysia - Shunji Kuroda (R), chief engineer of Japan's tugboat Idaten and the ship's captain Nobuo Inoue (L) arrive at a police office in Penang on March 22 for an interview with police about their abduction by pirates. Kuroda, Inoue and third engineer Edgardo Sadang of the Philippines were found safe on March 20 after being abducted by pirates in the Malacca Strait.

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(5)3 crewmen abducted by pirates confirmed safe

SATUN, Thailand - (From L to R) Captain Nobuo Inoue, engineer Edgardo Sadang and chief engineer Shunji Kuroda of the Japanese tugboat Idaten look fatigued in Satun in southern Thailand on March 21 after they were released by the pirates the previous day.

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(2)3 crewmen abducted by pirates confirmed safe

SATUN, Thailand - (From L to R) Chief engineer Shunji Kuroda, Captain Nobuo Inoue and engineer Edgardo Sadang of the Japanese tugboat Idaten look relieved beside their boss Kanji Kondo (R), the owner of the ship, in Satun in southern Thailand early March 21 after they were released by the pirates the previous day. Appearing before reporters, Inoue said, ''We are fine. Please don't worry.'' Kuroda said, ''We returned safely.''

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(4)3 crewmen abducted by pirates confirmed safe

KUSHIRO, Japan - Family members of Japanese tugboat chief engineer Shunji Kuroda speak to reporters in Atsukeshi, Hokkaido, on March 21 on the release of their kin by the pirates in southern Thailand the previous day.

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(3)3 crewmen abducted by pirates confirmed safe

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Chieko Kuroda (R), wife of Japanese tugboat chief engineer Shunji Kuroda, and their two daughters smile as they speak to reporters in Kitakyushu on March 21 on the release of her husband by the pirates in Thailand the previous day.

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(1)3 crewmen abducted by pirates confirmed safe

BUTTERWORTH, Malaysia - An official of Kondo Kaiji Co., tells reporters in Butterworth on March 20 that the three crew members of its tugboat Idaten who had been abducted by pirates in the Malacca Strait last week are all safe.

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(19)Scenes from Iraq war

ABOARD THE KITTY HAWK, Persian Gulf - Crewmen stand at a prayer service aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk in the Persian Gulf on April 6.

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U.S. crewmen relax at ''karaoke'' party

ABOARD THE KITTY HAWK, Persian Gulf - Crewmen enjoy a ''karaoke'' singing party aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk on the evening of March 22.

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2 Japanese die in Seto Inland Sea ship collision

OKAYAMA, Japan - Two Japan Coast Guard ships search for debris near the 1,573-ton Honduras-registered freighter Rose-River which collided with a small Japanese cargo ship in the Seto Inland Sea on June 5. The collision left two Japanese crewmen of the cargo ship dead.

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(2)SDF ships leave for Indian Ocean

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Family members wave flags to see off the crewmen of the 5,650-ton minesweeper tender Uraga at the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) Yokosuka Base on Nov. 25, 2001.

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(1)SDF ships leave for Indian Ocean

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Defense Agency chief Gen Nakatani addresses the crewmen aboard the minesweeper tender Uraga on Nov. 25, 2001 before their departure for the Indian Ocean to provide logistical support to U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan and offer relief aid to Afghan refugees. ''This is a very important task for our country. I hope you fulfill your jobs in an orderly manner,'' he said.

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Submersible checks area near Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - Crewmen aboard a U.S. ship on Feb. 19 pilot Deep Drone, a remote-controlled submersible examining the sea bottom where a Japanese trawler sank Feb. 9 after being hit by a U.S. submarine off Oahu Island. The submersible is being used to determine how the Ehime Maru could be raised.

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2 dead in GSDF chopper collision over Chiba Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) members on Feb. 14 search a bamboo grove in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, where an OH-6 observation helicopter from the GSDF's Camp Kisarazu crashed after it hit an AH-1 antitank chopper from the same camp. Two crewmen on board the OH-6 were killed. A window on the AH-1 broke and one crewman suffered slight injuries, but the chopper returned to camp.

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World Rafting Championship - Argentiere La Bessee

Rafting World Championship in the slalom discipline a man holds the prostheses of the legs of the French crewmen who embark without, Argentiere la Bessee, France on July 01, 2021. Photo by Durand Thibaut / ABACAPRESS.COM

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(5)Low-pressure system brings typhoon-class winds to Japan

AOMORI, Japan - A Japan Coast Guard helicopter tries to rescue crewmen from a stranded cement carrier off the coast of Aomori Prefecture on Dec. 5. Typhoon-class winds hit much of the Japanese archipelago, causing blackouts, stranding ships and paralyzing some air and land traffic. (Kyodo)

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(3)3 crewmen abducted by pirates confirmed safe

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Chieko Kuroda (R), wife of Japanese tugboat chief engineer Shunji Kuroda, and their two daughters smile as they speak to reporters in Kitakyushu on March 21 on the release of her husband by the pirates in Thailand the previous day. (Kyodo)

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(5)3 crewmen abducted by pirates confirmed safe

SATUN, Thailand - (From L to R) Captain Nobuo Inoue, engineer Edgardo Sadang and chief engineer Shunji Kuroda of the Japanese tugboat Idaten look fatigued in Satun in southern Thailand on March 21 after they were released by the pirates the previous day. (Kyodo)

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(2)3 crewmen abducted by pirates confirmed safe

SATUN, Thailand - (From L to R) Chief engineer Shunji Kuroda, Captain Nobuo Inoue and engineer Edgardo Sadang of the Japanese tugboat Idaten look relieved beside their boss Kanji Kondo (R), the owner of the ship, in Satun in southern Thailand early March 21 after they were released by the pirates the previous day. Appearing before reporters, Inoue said, ''We are fine. Please don't worry.'' Kuroda said, ''We returned safely.'' (Kyodo)