US Navy Aviation Ordnancemen hoist a Paveway III GBU-24/A laser guided bomb for transfer from one of the ships magazine spaces to the flight deck of the US Navy's nuclear power aircraft carrier USS VARL VINSON (CVN 70) in support of Operation DESERT STRIKE. The operation was designed to allow tactical missions by US and other coalition aircraft inside the borders of Iraq, in response to repeated Iraqi attacks in violation of UN Safe Zones
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STRIKE
Base: USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)
Scene Camera Operator: Unknown
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
03/09/1996
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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