Six Somali boys wait in line patiently at an orphanage where US Navy medical personnel (not shown) were providing checkups for the children. The orphanage is just outside of Mogadishu. US Navy and Air Force medical personnel met up with a civilian care group (not shown) to assist in giving check-ups to the children in the orphanage. Once word got out that there was a medical team in town, women from the local area started bringing their children (not shown). The team tried to see as many as possible, but supplies quickly ran out. 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
Country: Somalia (SOM)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Perry Heimer
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/02/1993
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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