US Navy Quartermaster 1ST Class J.J. Myers (center), helps an impoverished Callao, Peru, school erect a flag pole and hang the Peruvian flag as part of Operation HANDCLASP. Sailors from USS REUBEN JAMES (FFG 57) (not shown) helped paint and complete minor electrical and plumbing repairs and improvements to the inner-city school of over 1000 students. The ship is completing a port call while en route to Exercise TEAMWORK SOUTH '99
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: TEAMWORK SOUTH '99HANDCLASP
Base: Callao
Country: Peru (PER)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Chris Desmond, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
13/06/1999
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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