A large crane has completed removing the gang plank from the side of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69) as the ship gets underway from pier 11 for the Caribbean en route to the waters off Haiti to take part in the joint Operations Able Vigil and Support Democracy. The EISENHOWER is transporting the U.S. Army's elite 10th Mountain Division and their military hardware including HH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopters shown parked on the flight deck along with a Navy RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: ABLE VIGILSUPPORT DEMOCRACY
Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk
State: Virginia (VA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Steve Enfield
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
14/09/1994
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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