The large harbor tugs ANOKA (YTE-810) and PIQUA (YTB-793) begin to move the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-79) clear of pier 11 for a morning departure to the waters off Haiti in support of Operations Able Vigil and Support Democracy. The EISENHOWER is transporting 1,8000 U.S. Army soldiers of the elite 10th Mountain Division, from Fort Drum, N.Y., and their military hardware. Numerous AH-1T Cobra helicopter gunships are parked on the bow of the carrier
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: ABLE VIGILSUPPORT DEMOCRACY
Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk
State: Virginia (VA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Gregory L. Campbell
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
14/09/1994
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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