The US Navy (USN) Military Sealift Command (MSC) Hospital Ship, USNS MERCY (T-AH 19) (foreground), leads the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72) in formation as the ship arrive in the harbor at Belawan, Indonesia. The MERCY has been forward deployed along with the LINCOLN Carrier Strike Group to operate in the Indian Ocean off the waters of Indonesia to support Operation UNIFIED ASSISTANCE, the humanitarian operation effort in response to the Tsunami that struck Southeast Asia
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: UNIFIED ASSISTANCE
Base: Belawan Harbor
Country: Indonesia (IDN)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Gabriel R. Piper, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
03/02/2005
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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