Low angle shot looking up at the back end of a M54 Series 5-ton Cargo Truck as CPL Mike Hutta, from Alpha Company, 2nd of the 14th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York, unloads LAWS (Light Anti-tank Weapon) and AT-4s (Anti-tank Variation Four); handing tem to two Soldiers on the ground. Straight on shot of an abandoned and dilapidated building with overturned Soviet trucks inside. The building is located at an abandoned Soviet Base north of Sword Base and is being prepared for destruction. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE
Base: Range-6, Mogadishu Airport
Country: Somalia (SOM)
Scene Camera Operator: SPC Gary Bryant
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/11/1993
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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