Wearing helmets customized with their ship's colors, sailors from the destroyer USS O'BANNON (DD-987) man a 26-foot personnel boat as it returns to shore. The O'BANNON is preparing to depart from Charleston to take part in Unitas XXXII, a combined exercise involving the naval forces of the United States and nine South American countries
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: UNITAS XXXII
Base: Naval Base, Charleston
State: South Carolina(SC)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Johnny D. Bivera
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
06/07/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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