A US Air Force F-16 Falcon from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, is the first U.S. warplane to touch Slovak soil after touching down at Malacky Air Base, Slovakia. Colonel Richard Reynolds, Spangdahlem's 23rd Fighter Squadron Commander, landed the plane April 1. More than 200 Spangdahlem Airmen (Not Shown) are deployed to Malacky for a two-week training exercise, named Lion's Claw, that is giving U.S. and Slovak Air Forces an opportunity to share tactics, techniques and procedures
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: LION'S CLAW
Base: Malacky
Country: Slovakia (SVK)
Scene Camera Operator: SRA Esperanza Berrios, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/04/2000
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Source
The U.S. National Archives
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