Two Navy SH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopters, from the Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron, North Island, California, take off, in a cloud of dust, from a landing site near Phillips Hills in the New Mexican desert during a familiarization flight. The SH-60's aircraft and crew's mission, as part of the Red Forces, includes searching for Scud missile sites on the Alamogordo bombing range, during the world's largest joint service, multi-national tactical air operations exercise
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: ROVING SANDS '97
Base: Roswell
State: New Mexico (NM)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT. Cedric Rudisill
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
20/04/1997
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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