Crew members hold onto mooring lines on the deck of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS LOUISVILLE (SSN-724) as a commercial harbor tug maneuvers the vessel toward a pier. The LOUISVILLE has returned to San Diego following its deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm, during which it became the first submarine to launch a Tomahawk land attack missile in a wartime situation
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELDDESERT STORM
Base: Naval Submarine Base, San Diego
State: California (CA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: Josn Mark Burton
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
29/04/1991
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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