With its rotors removed a Bell UH-1N operated by Helicopters New Zealand LTD, is pulled and guided up the ramp into the cargo bay of a C-141C Starlifter. The C-141 from the 452nd Air Mobility Wing, March Air Reserve Base, California, will deliver the helicopter to McMurdo Station at Ross Island in Antarctica as part of the Operation DEEP FREEZE 2001 resupply mission
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: DEEP FREEZE 2001
Base: Christchurch
State: Canterbury
Country: New Zealand (NZL)
Scene Major Command Shown: AMC
Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Joe Cupido, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
03/11/2001
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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