US Navy (USN) Aviation Ordnanceman AIRMAN (AOA) Charles Lindsay, assigned to the Tridents of Patrol Squadron Two Six (VP-26), load sonar buoys into a P-3 Orion aircraft. The Trident combat aircrew flying the P-3 launched sonar buoys during anti-submarine warfare operations in support of an eleven-day North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) exercise is designed to improve joint ASW operations between NATO forces
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: OPERATION NOBLE MANTA
Base: Sigonella
State: Sicily
Country: Italy (ITA)
Scene Major Command Shown: VP-26
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 John Collins, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Tags
Date
17/02/2006
Location
Sigonella NAS, 37.40166, 14.92236
Source
The U.S. National Archives
Copyright info
No known copyright restrictions