Civilian contractors and US Navy (USN) Seabees ((CB) (Construction Battalion)) assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40 (NMCB-40), construct a tent city to facilitate 7,500 military and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) personnel in New Orleans. The Navy's active participation in the Hurricane Katrina humanitarian assistance operations is led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in conjunction with the Department of Defense (DoD). (Duplicate image, see also DNSD0602452 or search 050913N9712C001)
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: New Orleans
State: Louisiana (LA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 John Paul Curtis, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
13/09/2005
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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