Right side profile medium shot of the nose section on a USAF C-5 Galaxy cargo plane as the nose entrance is lowered into the closed position. Members of the Portuguese Air Base 4 and USAF members of the 629th AMSS (Air Mobility Support Squadron), Air Mobility Command, Lajes Field, Azores, stand in the background and watch as the C-5, from the 312th Airlift Squadron (AS), Travis AFB, California, is about to depart Lajes Field for East Timor with several pallets of MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat). The MRE's are part of a joint US-Portugal humanitarian relief effort
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Lajes Field
State: Azores
Country: Portugal (PRT)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT David Lobbestael, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
14/10/1999
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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