A sailor from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72) processes evacuees as they prepare to depart from the area aboard the vessel in the aftermath of Mount Pinatubo's eruption. The volcano, which erupted for the first time in over 600 years, forced the U.S. military to coordinate Operation Fiery Vigil evacuation efforts to remove more than 20,000 evacuees from the area
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: FIERY VIGIL
Base: Naval Station, Subic Bay
State: Luzon
Country: Philippines(PHL)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Patrick Muscott
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
17/06/1991
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The U.S. National Archives
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