Starboard bow view of the Multipurpose Tweendecker Vessel BBC SPAIN, moored to the pier at Augusta Bay, Sicily, as two heavy lifting cranes are used to lift the US Coast Guard (USCG) ISLAND CLASS: PATROL CRAFT, USS BAINBRIDGE ISLAND (WPB 1343), from the deck onto a floating barge. The patrol craft and crews have been forwardly deployed to protect ports frequented by the US and it's allies, who are in the region-conducting missions in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Augusta Bay
Country: Sicily (SIC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Damon J. Moritz, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Tags
Date
18/03/2003
Location
Golfo di Augusta, 37.20000, 15.21667
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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