An interior shot from the rear and over the left shoulder as Major Ronald Whittle, a pilot assigned to the 17th Airlift Squadron at Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, guides the first C-17A Globemaster III, to a landing at Hoedspruit AFB, South Africa, after traveling from the United States to take part in "Operation Atlas Response." The C-17A is the first of several flights that will arrive throughout the following weeks bringing helicopters and military personnel (equipment and personnel not shown) to assist with search and rescue and with the distribution of relief supplies in Mozambique
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: ATLAS RESPONSE
Base: Hoedspruit Air Force Base
Country: South Africa (ZAF)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Cary Humphries
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
05/03/2000
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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