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US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR MASTER Sergeant (SMSGT) Brian Duke, Videographer, 52nd Communications Squadron (CS), Spangdahlem Air Base (AB), Germany (DEU), signs a hat for a French citizen during celebrations outside St Mere Eglise, France (FRA). USAF SMSGT Duke is in France to document activities for the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day invasions of World War II (WWII)

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR MASTER Sergeant (SMSGT) Brian Duke, a Videographer with the 52nd Communications Squadron (CS), 52nd Fighter Wing (FW), provides video coverage of a Remembrance Ceremony honoring the victims of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Jeromie Brown of Air Force News, Ramstein Air Base (AB), Germany (DEU), captures video footage of First Lieutenant (1LT) Matt Shipstead, a Drop Zone Patrol Officer and co-pilot assigned to the 37th Airlift Squadron (AS), as he directs pilots aboard a C-130 Hercules aircraft approaching a drop zone near Otopeni Air Base (AB), Romania (ROU), in support of exercise Blue Knights II

US Air Force (USAF) Command CHIEF MASTER Sergeant (CCMSGT) Kenneth J. McQuiston (left), 52nd Fighter Wing (FW), Spangdahlem Air Base (AB), Germany, recites the CHIEF's Creed to five USAF CHIEF MASTER Sergeant (CMSGT) selectees during the CHIEF MASTER Sergeant Induction ceremony. The new CMSGTs are from left to right: S) Mike Dortch, NATO AWACS, E-3A Component, Training Wing, Geilenkirchen AB, Germany, S) Todd W. Barnes, 52nd Civil Engineer Squadron (CES), Spangdahlem AB, Germany, S) Roger A. Schwenneker, 52nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMS), Spangdahlem AB, Germany, S) Edwin A. Blake, 52nd Component Maintenance Squadron (CMS), Spangdahlem AB, Germany, and...

US Air Force (USAF) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Kenny Denmore (left), SENIOR MASTER Sergeant (SMSGT) Debra Huntley (center) and SMSGT Annie Reid, all First Sergeants deployed to Balad Air Base (AB), Iraq (IRQ)'s 332 Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW) participate in a Foreign Object or Debris (FOD) walk on the runway areas before deployed aircraft land in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Thomas Meneguin (background) videotapes the US Military Combined Endeavor Delegation as it stands in review formation, during the Closing Ceremonies for Exercise COMBINED ENDEAVOR 2004, at Lager Aulenbach, Germany. The Exercise is a US European Command (USEUCOM) sponsored exercise, designed to identify and document command, control, communications, and computer (C4) interoperability between North American Treaty Organization (NATO) and Partnership for Peace nations

US Army (USA) Sergeant First Class (SFC) Charles Cooley (right), Jumpmaster, XVIII Airborne (ABN) Corps, Ft Bragg, North Carolina (NC), performs a check on USA STAFF Sergeant (SSG) Wesley Thomas Neel (left), Jumpmaster, XVIII ABN Corps, making sure his equipment is properly attached prior to boarding an aircraft for a jump onto the Iron Mike Drop Zone (DZ) commemorating the 60th Anniversary of D-Day. More than 650 paratroopers jumped for the event near St Mere Eglise, France (FRA)

U.S. Air force MASTER SGT. Jeff Gentry and AIRMAN 1ST Class Bruce Conat, both assigned to the 48th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 48th Fighter Wing at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom, render salutes after laying a wreath of flowers during the 60th Anniversary of the Air Battle over the Ore Mountains Celebration, held to honor both the German and American Airmen killed over the skies of Kovarska, Czech Republic on September 11, 1944. The Celebration is being held on Sept. 11, 2004. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by AIRMAN Christopher Walkenhorst) (Released)

US Air Force (USAF) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Eric A. Johnson, 119th Fighter Wing (FW) Multimedia Center, North Dakota Air National Guard (NDANG), Hector International Airport (IAP), North Dakota (ND), shoots video footage near Logistical Staging Area (LSA) Anaconda, Iraq. MSGT Johnson is working with the NDANG and the North Dakota Army National Guard (NDARNG) Public Affairs (PA) gathering historical information about North Dakota troops serving in Iraq

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR MASTER Sergeant (SMSGT) Brian Duke, Videographer, 52nd Communications Squadron (CS), Spangdahlem Air base (AB), Germany (DEU), videotapes USAF C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft during the airdrop outside St Mere Eglise, France (FRA), on 5 Jun 2004. SMSGT Duke is in France to document activities for the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day invasions of World War II (WWII)

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Saint Mere Eglise

State: Normandy

Country: France (FRA)

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Timothy Cook, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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UTAH BEACH, France (June 04, 2016) Military members

Ukrainian Army personnel begin off-loading their military vehicles on 4 May, 2004, shortly after arriving at Lager Aulenbach, Germany (DEU), to take part in exercise Combined Endeavor 2004. Exercise Combined Endeavor is a US European Command-sponsored exercise, designed to identify and document command, control, communications, and computer (C4) interoperability between North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Partnership for Peace nations

US Air Force STAFF Sergeant Anita Tallant a videographer from the 1ST Communication Squadron, Langley AFB, Virginia uses a video camera to document activities on the flight line during the 1ST Fighter Wing Operational Readiness Inspection. A US Air Force F-15 Eagle aircraft is parked in the background

US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Richard "OP" Opedenhoff, right and SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Luke Novak, deployed from the 86th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS), Ramstein Air Base (AB), Germany (DEU), heave a pallet onto a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft, in support of peacekeeping efforts in Liberia

US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Lee Dozier and AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Marty Alston, with the 31st Civil Engineering Squadorn (CES) Fire Services, use teamwork to "put out a fire" during a training session at Aviano Air Base (AB), Italy (ITA)

US Air Force (USAF) personnel work to set up tents and other facilities in the exercise area as they participate in Exercise SILVER FLAG on Ramstein Air Base (AB), Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany (DEU)

US Air Force Technical Sergeant Greg Wade, 1ST Communications Squadron, Langley AFB, Virginia videotapes a mock-up aircraft fire, during an aircraft fire training scenario for the 1ST Fighter Wing's Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI)

US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Mario Muncey (foreground), a Videographer assigned to the 4th Combat Camera Squadron (CCS) sets up his camera with other members of the local civilian news media to document activities prior to the start of Exercise SEAHAWK 2002, at McChord Air Force Base (AFB), Washgton, (WA). Seahawk combes active duty and reserve components from the US Air Force (USAF), US Navy (USN), US Coast Guard (USCG), US Public Health Service, Royal Canadian Armed Forces (RCAF), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Emergence Management Association (FEMA) and multiple civilian first responder agencies coordated responses to simulated terrorist acts...

US Marine Corps (USMC) Corporal (CPL) Jeff Zaccaro, Combat Correspondent, Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Public Affairs Office, uses a Nikon digital camera to document activities of the Korean Incremental Training Program (KITP) at Camp Mu Juk, Korea. KITP is a joint training exercise with US Marines and the ROK Marines

A paratrooper of the 82nd Airborne Division participates in the re-enactment of a World War II parachute jump on the 40th anniversary of D-day, the invasion of Europe

An NBC News cameraman videotapes an USAF B-52H Stratofortress aircraft on the flight line at Barksdale AFB, LA. The NBC News crew was scheduled to broadcast live from Barksdale AFB, LA, for the Today Show

In a falling snow, US Air Force (USAF) Crew Chiefs with the 86th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS), de-ice a C-130 Hercules aircraft at Ramstein Air Base (AB), Germany (DEU)

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