A plane handler guides an F-14A Tomcat aircraft as it taxis toward one of the catapults aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN-71). The aircraft is carrying an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile, top, and an AIM-7 Sparrow missile beneath its wing. The ROOSEVELT is on station in the northeastern Mediterranean to support Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT
Base: USS Theodore Roosevelt(CVN 71)
Country: Mediterranean Sea(MED)
Scene Camera Operator: JO1(Sw) Gregg L. Snaza
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
25/04/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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