Aviation ordnancemen from Fighter Squadron 142 (VF-142) arm one of their squadron's F-14A Tomcat aircraft on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69). In the foreground is a box of stabilizing fins for the AIM-7 Sparrow missiles on the weapons skid directly behind the box. An AIM-9 Sidewinder missile is on the skid at left. The EISENHOWER is one of the U.S. Navy ships sent to the Persian Gulf in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD/STORM
Country: Unknown
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark Kettenhoffen
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/08/1990
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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