US Navy Aviation Boatswain's Mate 1ST Class John Macaby, monitors the launch of an F/A-18C Hornet aboard the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN 68) currently deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. The Secretary of Defense directed the NIMITZ battle group to the Gulf earlier than scheduled after Iraqi planes breached a U.N. sanctioned no-fly zone several times last week, 12 October 1997
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH
Base: USS Nimitz (CVN 68)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Glenn E. Cook Iii, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
12/10/1997
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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