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Local residents and Marines load supplies onto a Marine Utility/Attack Helicopter Squadron 169 (HML/A-169) CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter at Chittagong Air Base during Operation Sea Angel, a U.S. military effort to provide disaster relief to victims of a cyclone which devastated Bangladesh on April 30th.
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UH-1 Iroquois helicopters hover above the airfield as a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter prepares to take off at Chittagong Air Base. The helicopters are transporting supplies as part of Operation Sea Angel, a U.S. military effort to provide disaster relief to victims of a cyclone which devastated Bangladesh on April 30th.
CAPT. Wayne Miller, a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter pilot with Marine Utility/Attack Helicopter Squadron 169 (HML/A-169), speaks with local residents upon his arrival during Operation Sea Angel, a U.S. military effort to provide disaster relief to victims of a cyclone which devastated Bangladesh on April 30th.
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U.S. Marines carry a sack of rice across the airfield at Chittagong Air Base during Operation Sea Angel, a U.S. military effort to provide disaster relief to victims of a cyclone which devastated Bangladesh on April 30th.
A CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter lands as a 374th Tactical Air Wing C-130 Hercules aircraft prepares for take-off at Chittagong Air Base. The aircraft are taking part in Operation Sea Angel, a U.S. military effort to provide disaster relief to victims of a cyclone which devastated Bangladesh on April 30th.
Marines unload sacks of rice and other supplies from a Marine Utility/Attack Helicopter Squadron 169 (HML/A-169) CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter. The supplies are being delivered as part of Operation Sea Angel, a U.S. military effort to provide disaster relief to victims of a cyclone which devastated Bangladesh on April 30th.
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: SEA ANGEL
Base: Sandwip Island
Country: Bangladesh(BGD)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Val Gempis
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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