The large harbor tug NATCHITOCHES (YTB-799) heads across the harbor with reporters and cameramen aboard. The media personnel are covering the return of the guided missile destroyer USS MACDONOUGH (DDG-39) and the guided missile frigate USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47) to Naval Station, Charleston, S.C. The two ships left Charleston on September 21, 1990, for the Persian Gulf, where they served in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELDDESERT STORM
Base: Charleston Harbor
State: South Carolina (SC)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Oscar Sosa
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Tags
Date
22/03/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
Copyright info
No known copyright restrictions