SENIOR AIRMAN John Syme, an air transportation specialist with the 621st Aerial Port Squadron (APS), McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, breaks down a water pallet at the Libreville International Airport, Gabon, prior to Operation PHOENIX GAUNTLET. PHOENIX GAUNTLET deployed enabling forces as part of contingency planning to prepare for a possible evacuation of Americans from Zaire, gripped in a civil war
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: PHOENIX GAUNTLET
Base: Libreville International Airport
Country: Gabon (GAB)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Andy Dunaway, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
26/03/1997
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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