On a cold still morning, an SH-60B Seahawk Helicopter from Anti-Submarine Attack Squadron Seven (HS-7) sits on the flight deck of the USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75) as it begins its transit through the Suez Canal. The nuclear powered aircraft carrier is scheduled to arrive in the Persian Gulf in in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. Truman is on a six- month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH
Base: USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Rodger D. Schilling, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
27/12/2000
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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