Sailors and US Coast Guard District 5 Law Enforcement Detachment personnel approach a 30-foot, single-masted sailboat in a motor launch from the dock landing ship USS WHIDBEY ISLAND (LSD 41). The sailboat, which was dead in the water when it was detected by the WHIDBEY ISLAND's radar, in the Caribbean Sea is carrying 92 Haitian refugees. The refugees were taken aboard the WHIDBEY ISLAND and later transferred to a Coast Guard cutter. In accordance with a standing agreement between the United States and Haiti, the refugees were returned to their homeland
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
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Scene Camera Operator: Josn Bert Olsen, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
18/07/1988
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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