USS Ponce and USS Kearsarge get closer to Libya
By Elizabeth Flock
Posted at 10:07 AM ET, 03/ 2/2011
Two U.S. amphibious warships, the USS Ponce and the USS Kearsarge, passed through Egypt's Suez Canal on Wednesday and arrived in the Mediterranean, a canal official said. The officials said the USS Kearsarge is carrying 42 helicopters.