PH1 Felimon Barbante Sea of Japan....Civilian contract personnel prepare to lower the unmanned submersible Deep Drone from the deck of the fleet tug USNS Narragansett (T-ATF-167) as a Soviet Alpinist class intelligence collection ship shadows salvage operations for downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL-007). The commercial jet was shot down by Soviet aircraft over Sakhalin Island on Aug. 30, 1983. All 269 passengers and crewmen were killed. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO (RELEASED)
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Date
1983
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