Mrs. Kay York, a teacher at Stewardson-Strasburg School, greets MAJ Skip Davenport as he and other members of the 8th Special Operations Squadron arrive to visit her first grade class. Children from the class corresponded with members of the squadron when the servicemen were stationed in the Persian Gulf area during Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Now that they have returned from deployment, the men have traveled to Illinois to meet and spend a day with their pen pals
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELDDESERT STORM
Base: Charleston
State: Illinois(IL)
Country: United States Of America(USA)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Charles Taylor
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
21/05/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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