US Navy (USN) Sailors aboard the USN Austin Class Amphibious Transport Dock Ship USS TRENTON (LPD 14) assist arriving civilians evacuated from Beirut, Lebanon (LBN). The TRENTON is on a regularly scheduled deployment, and is assisting the US Central Command (US CENTCOM) and 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) with the departure of US citizens from Lebanon, at the request of the US Ambassador to Lebanon and at the direction of the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF). Lebanon is under an Lebanoni attack in retaliation against Hezbollah guerillas, for a raid into northern Lebanon and the capture of two Lebanoni Soldiers
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS Trenton (LPD 14)
Scene Camera Operator: LT Karen Eifert, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
22/07/2006
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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