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M-60 main battle tanks come ashore from utility landing craft during the multinational, joint exercise Bright Star '87

An M-60 main battle tank comes ashore from a landing craft during an amphibious assault in support of the multinational joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR '85

An M-60 main battle tank participates in armored vehicle operations during the multinational joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR '85

M-60 main battle tanks come ashore from the Utility Landing Craft 1645 (LCU 1645) during an amphibious assault in support of the multinational joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR '85

A Marine surveys the surrounding territory from an M60 main battle tank cupola during the multinational, joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR'87

An M-60 main battle tank takes up a position on the beach during an amphibious assault in support of the multinational joint service Exercise Bright Star '85

M-60 main battle tanks parked in formation prepare for armored vehicle operations during the multinational joint service exercise Bright Star '85

Marines offload M60 main battle tank from utility landing craft LCU 1645 onto the beach during the multinational, joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR'87

M-60 main battle tanks and other armored vehicles used during the multinational joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR '85 are staged on the dock prior to being loaded aboard a ship

M60 main battle tanks come ashore from utility landing craft during the multinational, joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR'87

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Subject Operation/Series: BRIGHT STAR

Base: El Hamman

Country: Egypt (EGY)

Scene Camera Operator: CPL Vincent E. Aldridge

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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01/08/1987
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label_outline Explore El Hamman, M 60 Main Battle Tank, Cpl Vincent

Marines take up their positions during the amphibious assault phase of the multinational, joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR'87. An AAVP 7 assault amphibian vehicle and an M60 main battle tank are in the background

A starboard bow view of utility landing craft 1645 (LCU-1645) as it moves toward the beach during exercise Northern Wedding '82

An Mechanized Landing Craft (LCM 8) brings an M-60 tank from the 2nd Platoon, Company B, 1ST tank Battalion, ashore during a training exercise held in preparation for a Western Pacific deployment

Marine beachmasters use a TEREX 72-31MP2U/R forklift to load equipment aboard utility landing craft 1659 (LCU 1659) during a multinational peacekeeping operation

A Marine M1A1 main battle tank moves down the open ramp of utility landing craft LCU 1658. The tank is equipped with a fording kit that is being evaluated by the Marine Corps, Naval Amphibious Base (NAB), Little Creek, Virginia (VA)

A beachmaster guides the driver of a rough-terrain forklift as he drives the vehicle along a causeway from the beach to a utility landing craft (LCU) during the joint services exercise Solid Shield '89

An LVTP7 Tracked Landing Vehicle is backed up to the stern loading ramp of the maritime prepositioning ship SS 2ND LT. JOHN P. BOBO (T-AK 3008) at the conclusion of the multinational joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR '85

The lead Soviet Naval Infantry PT-76 amphibious tanks fires its 76 mm cannon as it heads a column of other tanks from the bow of a Ropucha class tank landing ship during a naval demonstration for the officers and crew of two visiting US Navy ships

Paratroopers jump from C-130 Hercules aircraft during the multinational, joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR'87

A US Navy (USN) Sailor, Beach MASTER Unit One (BMU-1) Detachment (DET), uses hand signals to guide LCU 1600 Class Utility Landing Craft, Landing Craft Utility 1627 (LCU 1627), into position to offload vehicles and personnel at Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippines (PHL), while visiting the Philippines on a regularly schedule Western Pacific (WESTPAC) Spring Patrol with Forward Deployed Amphibious Ready Group (ARG)

An aerial view of a Marine M60 tank as it disembarks a utility landing craft (LCU 1659) on the beach. The Marines are participating as members of a multinational peacekeeping force

The Utility Landing Craft (LCU 1653) prepares to land tanks at Onslow Beach during Exercise Solid Shield '85

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battle tanks battle tanks utility craft service exercise service exercise star us army tanks m 60 main battle tank utility landing craft battle tank egypt high resolution bright star el hamman cpl vincent military exercise m 60 tank us national archives