US Army (USA) Major (MAJ) Timothy A. Doherty, 148th Medical Company (Air Ambulance) (MED CO(AA)), Georgia Army National Guard (GAARNG), Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia (GA), helps an elderly man up from an opening on the roof of a school building near downtown New Orleans, Louisiana (LA). He was stranded by the flood waters that ravished the city and will now be evacuated onboard the USA UH-1 Iroquois in the background. The US Army National Guard mobilized to take part in Joint Task Force (JTF) Katrina humanitarian assistance operation in a joint effort led by the Department of Defense (DoD) in conjunction with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: New Orleans
State: Louisiana (LA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Major Command Shown: JTF-KATRINA
Scene Camera Operator: PH1(Aw) Brien Aho, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
04/09/2005
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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