C-17 Globemaster III (left, tail), and a C-141 Starlifter (center) from Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, and another C-141 from McCord Air Force Base, Washington, sits on the over crowded ramp at the Libreville International Airport, Gabon, for Operation PHOENIX GAUNTLET. PHOENIX GAUNTLET deployed enabling forces as part of contingency planning to prepare for a possible evacuation of Americans from Zaire, gripped in a civil war
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: PHOENIX GAUNTLET
Base: Libreville International Airport
Country: Gabon (GAB)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Andy Dunaway, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
24/03/1997
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Source
The U.S. National Archives
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