An aerial starboard beam view of the Soviet Altay-class tanker ILIM taken from a P-3 Orion aircraft approximately 750 miles west of Midway Island. The tanker is operating with nine other Soviet ships and is moving in a northeasterly direction. This is the largest Soviet task force to enter Central Pacific waters
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Loveall
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Nothing Found.
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Date
24/01/1983
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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