US Navy Captain Jim Munroe, Radio Officer, US Navy amphibious assault ship USS BELLEAU WOOD (LHA 3), leads a group of US officers taking part in a wreath laying ceremony at a World War II memorial in Vladivostok, Russia. Belleau Wood is in the Russian Far East to participate in Exercise COOPERATION FROM THE SEA '96. The exercise is a joint venture between US and Russian Naval forces designed to improve disaster-relief operations and to gain further understanding between the two nations
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Subject Operation/Series: COOPERATION FROM THE SEA '96
Base: Vladivostok
State: Siberia
Country: Russia (RUS)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Jeff Viano, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
13/08/1996
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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