Sailors aboard the guided missile frigate USS KAUFFMAN (FFG 59) demonstrate firefighting equipment for their Soviet hosts. KAUFFMAN and the Aegis guided missile cruiser USS THOMAS S. GATES (CG 51) are making the second goodwill call to a Soviet port by American warships since World War II
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Base: Sevastopol
Country: U.S.S.R. (SUN)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark Kettenhofen
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
04/08/1989
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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