Multinational forces move and stack bags of rice onto a US Navy (USN) MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter, Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15 (HM-15), Blackhawks, Naval Station (NS) Norfolk, Virginia (VA) during a joint working party at Sabanh Airfield, Sumatra, Indonesia. The HM-15 is currently embarked on board the Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ship USS ESSEX (LHD 2) [not shown], underway in support of Operation UNIFIED ASSISTANCE, the humanitarian operation effort in the wake of the Tsunami that struck South East Asia on December 26, 2004
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Sabang Air Field
State: Sumatra
Country: Indonesia (IDN)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Stephanie L. Johnson, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
24/01/2005
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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