Low angle shot up at several US Army Soldiers from Alpha Company, 41st Engineering Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York, sitting on the steel girders of a pre-fabricated Bailey bridge they just erected which closed the gap between the cities of Kismayo and Jilib, Somalia. The bridge was dedicated the Sean Devereaux Bridge in memory of the UNICEF worker who died while working to feed thousands of starving people in the southern region of Somalia. The building of the bridge is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE
Base: Sean Devereaux Bridge
Country: Somalia (SOM)
Scene Camera Operator: SPC Shawn Paine
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
2007
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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