Shot across the flight line at Mogadishu Airport at the opened rear entrance on a Russian An-124 Condor cargo plane from the Aviation Industrial Complex, Ulyanovsk. The Russian aircraft arrived at Mogadishu Airport carrying a load for the Brown and Root Services Cooperation, a US Government Contractor. The cargo is being unloaded with the assistance of the 1ST Mobile Aerial Port Squadron (MAPS), Dyess Air Force Base, Texas and the 2nd MAPS, Little Rock Air Force Base, Little Rock, Arkansas. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE
Base: Mogadishu Airport
Country: Somalia (SOM)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Lemuel Casillas
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/01/1993
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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