An S-3 Viking from Carrier-Based Antisubmarine Squadron Twenty-Two (VS-22), "Checkmates", prepares to launch off catapult two on the flight deck of USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) during night flight operations in defense of the Southern No Fly Zone. TRUMAN is on station in the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. SOUTHERN WATCH establishes a southern no fly zone over Iraq and extends to the borders to just south of Baghdad, capital city of Iraq
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH
Base: USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Talia A. Koenig, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
11/03/2001
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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