CAPT. Douglas C. Bauer speaks with a crew member from the Turkish freighter Rize K., the first freighter approved by the United Nations to deliver humanitarian aid to Iraq. Bauer is a Navy combat artist/historian who is observing while a boarding party from the guided missile destroyer USS WILLIAM V. PRATT (DDG-44) conducts an investigation of the Turkish vessel. The PRATT is the flagship of the Maritime Interdiction Force, the unit charged with enforcing U.N. sanctions against Iraq during Operation Desert Storm
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM
Country: Red Sea
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Milton Savage
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/02/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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