US Navy Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handler) Milton Jimison directs a F-14 Tomcat aircraft, assigned to Fighter Squadron Thirty-Two (VF-32), onto catapult one on the flight deck of USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75) in order to launch it on a mission in defense of the no fly zone over the Persian Gulf. Truman is on station in the Persian Gulf in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. (Duplicate image, also see DN-SD-02-09645 or 010208-N-1058W-001)
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH
Base: USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 H. Dwain Willis, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
08/02/2001
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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