US Navy (USN) Aviation Warfare Systems Operator Third Class (AW3) Terra Lathrop (foreground left), ensures patients are securely fastened in their seats aboard a USN MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, on the ground in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The patients are being flown to the USN Military Sealift Command (MSC), Hospital Ship, USNS MERCY (T-AH 19), stationed off shore. The MERCY is on a scheduled five-month deployment to deliver aid and humanitarian assistance to South and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Chittagong
Country: Bangladesh (BGD)
Scene Camera Operator: MCC Edward G. Martens, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/07/2006
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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