U.S. Air Force STAFF SGT. Billy Lucas, an air transportation craftsman with the 733rd Air Mobility Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, marshals a John Deere 544E forklift while they load pallets of relief supplies onto a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft during Operation Unified Assistance at Bangkok International Airport, Bangkok, Thailand, on Jan. 4, 2005. More than 18,000 U.S. military personnel are providing humanitarian assistance in Southwest Asia after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered devastating tsunamis that killed over 250,000 people in the region. (USAF photo by TECH. SGT John M. Foster) (Released)
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Bangkok International Airport
State: Bangkok
Country: Thailand (THA)
Scene Camera Operator: TECH. SGT John M. Foster, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
04/01/2005
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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