The Peruvian Navy Velarde (PR-72P) Class Fast Attack Craft-Missile BAP SANCHEZ CARRILLON (CM 26) fires at a target, simulating an incoming threat, during a surface gunnery exercise conducted during the UNITAS 45-04 Pacific Phase. Eleven partner nations from the US and Latin America joined for the largest multilateral exercise in the Southern Hemisphere since 1959. UNITAS aims to unite military forces throughout the Americas with bilateral and multilateral shipboard, amphibious and in-port exercises and operations, promoting friendship, professionalism and understanding among participants
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Pacific Ocean
Country: Peru (PER)
Scene Major Command Shown: COMMANDER US NAVAL FORCES SOUTHE
Scene Camera Operator: LT Ligia Cohen, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
14/07/2004
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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