Evacuees enter the base fitness center, where they will continue being processed during Operation Fiery Vigil. McChord is a stopover for hundreds of U.S. Air Force and Navy personnel, civilian employees and their dependents being evacuated from the Philippines after fallen ash from the erruption of Mount Pinatubo collapsed buildings and disrupted operations on military bases.
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: FIERY VIGIL
Base: Mcchord Air Force Base
State: Washington(WA)
Country: United States Of America(USA)
Scene Camera Operator: STAFF SGT. Tony Lambert
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/06/1991
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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