Flaring for landing at Maya Maya Aeroport located in Brazzaville, Congo is a United States Marine Corps MH-53E Super Stallion. The MH-53 is assigned to HM-365 on board the USS Nassau and is in Brazzaville in preparation for the Marine Corps take-over of PHOENIX GAUNTLET operation from the Joint Task Force (JTF). 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: Brazzaville
Country: Congo (COG)
Scene Camera Operator: A1C Gregory L. Davis, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
08/04/1997
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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