Left side front view medium close-up from the chest up as AIRMAN First Class Joe Martin, assigned to the 41st Rescue Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, reconnects the tail-rotor on one of the first two American HH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, that will participate in "Operation Atlas Response." The helicopters will be re-assembled after their delivery to Hoedspruit Air Force Base, South Africa, and will aid in the distribution of relief supplies and rescue stranded flood victims (relief supplies and flood victims not shown) in neighboring Mozambique. (Duplicate image, see also DF-SD-01-03139 or search 000307-F-5772H-504)
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: ATLAS RESPONSE
Base: Hoedspruit Air Force Base
Country: South Africa (ZAF)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Cary Humphries
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
07/03/2000
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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