US Air Force (USAF) Airmen assigned to the 352nd Maintenance Squadron (MXS), remove the gearbox from a MH-53M Pave Low IV helicopter as they prepare the chopper for transport at Air Force Base Hoedspruit, South Africa. The 352nd is deployed at Hodespruit in support of Operation ATLAS RESPONSE. The Operation is a Humanitarian Aid Operation directed by the US European Command (USEUCOM) to help the people of Mozambique, after severe flooding displaced over a million people from their homes
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: ATLAS RESPONSE
Base: Hoedspruit Air Force Base
Country: South Africa (ZAF)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Ken Bergmann, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
26/03/2000
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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