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A 55th Special Operations Squadron HH-60A Night Hawk helicopter undergoes aerial refueling during a search and rescue (SAR) mission. Helicopters from the squadron are taking part in SAR efforts initiated for Texas Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland and members of his delegation after the plane transporting Leland and 15 other people was reported missing en route to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border

A 55th Special Operations Squadron HH-60A Night Hawk helicopter underg...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Ethiopia (ETH) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Bill Thompson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Members of the 67th Special Operations Squadron plan the following day's mission with Ethiopian search and rescue team pilots at Bole Airport during efforts to locate an aircraft carrying Texas Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland and members of his delegation. The plane transporting Leland and 15 other people was reported missing en route to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border

Members of the 67th Special Operations Squadron plan the following day...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Addis Ababa Country: Ethiopia (ETH) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Bill Thompson, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service ... More

U.S. military personnel coordinate the day's activities in their base camp, situated near a Kurdish refugee camp at Silopi. Military personnel are in the area as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

U.S. military personnel coordinate the day's activities in their base ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Silopi Country: Turkey(TUR) Scene Camera Operator: LT J.G. Don Savage Release Status: Released to Publ... More

Kurdish children play as their mothers tend cooking fires at a refugee camp near the Turkey-Iraq border. Thousands of Kurds fled into Turkey after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm. Troops from the U.S. and other nations have come to the camp to distribute aid and prepare the refugees for a move to organized camps within Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort

Kurdish children play as their mothers tend cooking fires at a refugee...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORTDESERT STORM Base: Isikveren Country: Turkey (TUR) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Hatton Release Status: Release... More

Recognition smoke drifts across a landing zone near a CH-47 Chinook helicopter at a refugee camp outside the city of Zakhu. U.S. and coalition troops are in Zakhu as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

Recognition smoke drifts across a landing zone near a CH-47 Chinook he...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Jerry Ireland Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mili... More

Kurdish men disembark from a Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 264 (HMM-264) CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter after arriving at a refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq. U.S. and allied troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm

Kurdish men disembark from a Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 264 (HM...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORMPROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Hatton Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

CAPT. Tony Grecio of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 264 (HMM-264) relaxes beside his CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter in the military compound beside a refugee camp during Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq

CAPT. Tony Grecio of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 264 (HMM-264) r...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Zakhu Country: Iraq(IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark Kettenhofen Release Status: Released to Publi... More

A UH-60A Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter sits in a field beside the Allied military compound at a refugee camp. Troops from the U.S. and other coalition nations are in Silopi as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

A UH-60A Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter sits in a field beside the ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Silopi Country: Turkey(TUR) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Kettenhofen Release Status: Released to Public ... More

Kurdish children gather around CMDR. Donald Thurston of Naval Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit 7 (NEPMU-7) as he passes out items from a Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) at a refugee camp near the city of Zakhu. U.S. and coalition troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

Kurdish children gather around CMDR. Donald Thurston of Naval Environm...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Ireland Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military S... More

A refugee family sits near a smoldering fire in the camp near Goma

A refugee family sits near a smoldering fire in the camp near Goma

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SUPPORT HOPE Base: Goma Country: Zaire (ZAR) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Andy Dunaway Release Status: Released to Public Comb... More

A view of a refugee family in the camp near Goma

A view of a refugee family in the camp near Goma

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SUPPORT HOPE Base: Goma Country: Zaire (ZAR) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Andy Dunaway Release Status: Released to Public Comb... More

A view of a female refugee carrying a bundle of twigs on her head through the refugee camp near Goma

A view of a female refugee carrying a bundle of twigs on her head thro...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SUPPORT HOPE Base: Goma Country: Zaire (ZAR) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Andy Dunaway Release Status: Released to Public Comb... More

An Albanian laborer monitors the flow of mud from a potential water well as his crew attempts to find an adequate source of life sustaining water at the U.S. sponsored Kosovo refugee camp, Camp Hope, in Fier, Albania, June 1, 1999. This mission is in direct support of Operation Shining Hope

An Albanian laborer monitors the flow of mud from a potential water we...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SHINING HOPE Base: Camp Hope, Fier Country: Albania (ALB) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Efrain Gonzalez Release Status: Releas... More

US Army (USA) Soldiers assigned to Alpha Company, 9th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Battalion and the 401st Civil Affairs Battalion, acquire the aid of a local interpreter at a refugee camp located near Kandahar, Afghanistan during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

US Army (USA) Soldiers assigned to Alpha Company, 9th Psychological Op...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: SPC Marshall Emerson, USA Release Status: ... More

Mrs. Laura Bush and Daughter, Barbara Visit Mae La Refugee Camp in Thailand

Mrs. Laura Bush and Daughter, Barbara Visit Mae La Refugee Camp in Tha...

Original caption: Original caption: Mrs. Laura Bush and daughter, Barbara, pose with students in Class Room One during their visit to the Mae La Refugee Camp in Mae Sot, Thailand. Photographs Related to the Geo... More

Soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard assist graduate

Soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard assist graduate

Soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard assist graduate students from the University of Minnesota during a refugee camp simulation exercise meant to give the students an idea of the conditions they would mos... More

LTC Roger Smith, a dental pathologist with the 316th Air Division, discusses dental X-rays with a member of the Air Force Institute of Pathology. The two men are part of a joint team of Ethiopian and American specialists is attempting to identify the remains of aircraft crash victims including Texas Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland. The remains were discovered following a three-day search and rescue mission which had been initiated after the plane transporting Leland and 15 other people was reported missing en route to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border

LTC Roger Smith, a dental pathologist with the 316th Air Division, dis...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Addis Ababa Country: Ethiopia (ETH) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Bill Thompson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digita... More

Personnel set up a temporary morgue at the American Embassy compound in anticipation of a possible tragic outcome to a search and rescue mission taking place to locate Texas Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland and members of his delegation. A search was initiated after the plane transporting Leland and 15 other people was reported missing en route to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border

Personnel set up a temporary morgue at the American Embassy compound i...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Addis Ababa Country: Ethiopia (ETH) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Bill Thompson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digita... More

Ethiopian soldiers stand in formation during a ceremony honoring Texas Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland and other victims of an aircraft crash. Nine Americans and seven Ethiopian passengers were killed in the crash, which occurred on a remote mountainside in western Ethiopia as the group was traveling to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border

Ethiopian soldiers stand in formation during a ceremony honoring Texas...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Addis Ababa Country: Ethiopia (ETH) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Bill Thompson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digita... More

Dental pathologist LT. COL. Roger Smith, a dental pathologist with the 316th Air Division, and an assistant study dental X-rays in an attempt to identify the remains of Texas Representative George (Mickey) Leland and 15 members of his delegation. Leland and the others were killed when their plane crashed in a mountainous region as they were en route to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border

Dental pathologist LT. COL. Roger Smith, a dental pathologist with the...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Addis Ababa Country: Ethiopia (ETH) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT. Bill Thompson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digit... More

Two Kurdish boys tend their sheep in a landing zone beside a refugee camp near the city of Zakhu. U.S. and coalition troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey. Several British Mark 2 Commando helicopters are in the background

Two Kurdish boys tend their sheep in a landing zone beside a refugee c...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Jerry Ireland Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mili... More

Kurdish children follow a U.S. soldier as he moves supplies from a helicopter landing zone to a refugee camp. The material is being provided as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish children follow a U.S. soldier as he moves supplies from a hel...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Milton R. Savage Release Status: Released to Public Combined M... More

A UH-1N Iroquois, UH-60 Black Hawk and CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter stand in line at a helicopter landing area near a Kurdish refugee camp. The helicopters are being used during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

A UH-1N Iroquois, UH-60 Black Hawk and CH-53E Super Stallion helicopte...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Zakhu Country: Iraq(IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: LTJG Don Savage Release Status: Released to Public Com... More

A Kurdish child eats some food as he sits with members of his family in a tent at a refugee camp near the Turkey-Iraq border. Thousands of Kurds fled into Turkey after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm. Troops from the U.S. and other nations have come to the camp to distribute aid and prepare the refugees for a move to organized camps within Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort

A Kurdish child eats some food as he sits with members of his family i...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Isikveren Country: Turkey (TUR) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Hatton Release Status: Released to Public ... More

A Kurdish refugee sits atop a stack of supplies on the outskirts of the tent city where he resides. Supplies are being delivered to the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

A Kurdish refugee sits atop a stack of supplies on the outskirts of th...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Zakhu Country: Iraq(IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: LTJG Don Savage Release Status: Released to Public Com... More

Lance CPL. Timothy D. Tinch of Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Service Support Group 24 (MSSG-24) fills plastic jugs with purified water as other Marines distribute the water to Kurds waiting outside the fence. The Marines are working in the refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq, as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

Lance CPL. Timothy D. Tinch of Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Service...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: JOC Shaw Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Serv... More

Hospital Corpsman 1ST Class Jerry Walker of Naval Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit 7 (NEPMU-7) crosses a field at a refugee camp outside the city of Zakhu. U.S. and coalition troops are in Zakhu as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey. A British army Land Rover 4x4 ambulance is in the background

Hospital Corpsman 1ST Class Jerry Walker of Naval Environmental Preven...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Jerry Ireland Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mili... More

Mothers pose for a photograph with their children at Zbirni Refugee Camp during a visit by crew members of the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH-9). The sailors are visiting the camp during the Guam's port call in nearby Trieste, Italy

Mothers pose for a photograph with their children at Zbirni Refugee Ca...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Kozina Country: Slovenia (SVN) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Bruce Morris Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photo... More

A view of the children waving in the refugee camp located near Goma

A view of the children waving in the refugee camp located near Goma

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SUPPORT HOPE Base: Goma Country: Zaire (ZAR) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Andy Dunaway Release Status: Released to Public Comb... More

A convoy of United Nations trucks escorted by a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) makes the 20-kilometer uphill trek, past hiking Rwandans, to take purified water to Kibumba, the nearest refugee camp. From AIRMAN Magazine's December 1994 issue article "Will You Please Pray for US?" -Relief for Rwandan Refugees

A convoy of United Nations trucks escorted by a High-Mobility Multipur...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Goma Country: Zaire (ZAR) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Rose Reynolds, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Ph... More

A member of the US Army water purification team squats on top of water truck, preparing to draw water from Lake Kiva, then chlorinate the water and transport it to th Kibumba refugee camp near Goma, Africa. From AIRMAN Magazine's December 1994 issue article "Will You Please Pray for US?" -Relief for Rwandan Refugees

A member of the US Army water purification team squats on top of water...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Zaire (ZAR) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Rose Reynolds Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

NATO participants in an head shaving auction fund raiser held at Butmir Compound, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, (bottom left to right) Greg Connley, Keith Betts, (middle left to right) Anna Denise Bolks, Mark Wahl, Bill Hill, (top left to right) Liam Slattery and James Scott. The fund raiser was organized by British Army Sergeant Greg Connley and the proceeds went to help the Yahrina Refugee Camp

NATO participants in an head shaving auction fund raiser held at Butmi...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Camp Butmir State: Sarajevo Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Carl Fountain, USAF Release Status: Released to ... More

An Albanian laborer monitors the flow of mud from a potential water well as his crew attempts to find an adequate source of life sustaining water at the U.S. sponsored Kosovo refugee camp, Camp Hope, in Fier, Albania, June 1, 1999. This mission is in direct support of Operation Shining Hope

An Albanian laborer monitors the flow of mud from a potential water we...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SHINING HOPE Base: Camp Hope, Fier Country: Albania (ALB) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Efrain Gonzalez Release Status: Releas... More

US Army (USA) Sergeant (SGT) Justin Anderson, Alpha/Company, 9th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Battalion, carries a 5.56mm M4 Carbine while enroute to a refugee camp in Afghanistan, provide medical and humanitarian assistance, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

US Army (USA) Sergeant (SGT) Justin Anderson, Alpha/Company, 9th Psych...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: SPC Marshall Emerson, USA Release Status: ... More

US Army (USA) Sergeant (SGT) Kris Baker (left), Alpha/Company, 9th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Battalion, allows the village elder of a refugee camp located near Kandahar, Afghanistan, to use the loudspeaker to tell refugees that coalition forces are at the camp to provide medical and humanitarian assistance, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

US Army (USA) Sergeant (SGT) Kris Baker (left), Alpha/Company, 9th Psy...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURIG FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: SPC Marshall Emerson, USA Release Status: ... More

Rosalynn Carter - At refugee camp, Sa Kas, Thailand

Rosalynn Carter - At refugee camp, Sa Kas, Thailand

Carter White House Photographs: Presidential Public domain photograph - White house, President of the United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rosalynn Carter - At refugee camp, Sa Kas, Thailand

Rosalynn Carter - At refugee camp, Sa Kas, Thailand

Carter White House Photographs: Presidential Public domain photograph - White house, President of the United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A recovery crew is lowered from an HH-60A Night Hawk helicopter to the crash site of the aircraft transporting Texas Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland and members of his delegation. The wreckage was located following three days of search and rescue efforts, initiated after the plane transporting Leland and 15 other people was reported missing en route to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border. All passengers aboard the aircraft lost their lives in the crash

A recovery crew is lowered from an HH-60A Night Hawk helicopter to the...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Ethiopia (ETH) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Bill Thompson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Members of the 67th Special Operations Squadron consult with members of an Ethiopian search and rescue team at Bole Airport during efforts to locate an aircraft carrying Texas Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland and members of his delegation. The plane transporting Leland and 15 other people was reported missing en route to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border

Members of the 67th Special Operations Squadron consult with members o...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Addis Ababa Country: Ethiopia (ETH) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Bill Thompson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digita... More

SGT Robert D. Holcomb, maintenance management chief for the CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter, mans a .50-caliber machine gun in the helicopter's doorway as it approaches a Kurdish refugee camp on a supply delivery. The CH-53 is transporting material as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

SGT Robert D. Holcomb, maintenance management chief for the CH-53E Sup...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Milton R. Savage Release Status: Released to Public Combined M... More

A Kurdish refugee carries a container of purified water back to camp as others line up to receive their supply on the outskirts of their tent city near Zakhu. Such necessities are being proved as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid those fleeing the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

A Kurdish refugee carries a container of purified water back to camp a...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq(IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: LCDR Skip Burdon Release Status: Released to Public Combined Milita... More

Kurdish refugees unload supplies from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter as Allied forces make a food delivery to the refugee camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort. The operation is an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugees unload supplies from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopt...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: JOC Marjie Shaw Release Status: Released to Public Combined Milita... More

Members of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 put up concertina wire on the outskirts of a Kurdish refugee camp during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Members of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 put up concertina w...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq(IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark Kettenhofen Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mi... More

A refugee receives a handshake from a crewman as he disembarks from the medium endurance cutter USCGC VIGILANT (WMEC-617). The man is among a group of Haitian refugees being brought to a humanitarian relief center at Camp McCalla after fleeing political and economic upheaval in their homeland

A refugee receives a handshake from a crewman as he disembarks from th...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba(CUB) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Russ Olsen Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Phot... More

Crew members from the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH-9) carry supplies into a storehouse at Zbirni Refugee Camp. The sailors are visiting the camp during the Guam's port call in nearby Trieste, Italy

Crew members from the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH-9) carry s...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Kozina Country: Slovenia (SVN) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Bruce M. Morris Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Ph... More

An MH-53E from HM-15 guarded by Marines awaits Adm. Ellis (not shown), Commander Joint Task Force Nobel Anvil, at Elabason refugee camp. HM-15 is currently embarked on USS INCHON which is operating in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Sea, supporting Operation Sustain Hope, a joint, combined NATO and U.S. military humanitarian relief effort in conjunction with civilian relief agencies. Operation Sustain Hope is bringing relief to thousands of refugees (not shown) created from the recent unrest in the Kosovo region

An MH-53E from HM-15 guarded by Marines awaits Adm. Ellis (not shown),...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SUSTAIN HOPE Base: Elabason Refugee Camp, Tirana Country: Albania (ALB) Scene Camera Operator: PH2(Aw) Brian Mcfadden Releas... More

Mr. Lee Bandel, Readiness Managment Support, and Site Manager, discusses with Major General William S. Hinton Jr., Shining Hope commander, his plans for developing the newest U.S. sponsored Kosovo refugee site designated "Camp Eagle" in Fier, Albania, June 1, 1999. MAJ Gen Hinton and his party visited with the management and contractors of the U.S. sponsored Kosovo refugee camps in Albania. This mission is in direct support of Operation Shining Hope

Mr. Lee Bandel, Readiness Managment Support, and Site Manager, discuss...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SHINING HOPE Base: Camp Eagle, Fier Country: Albania (ALB) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Efrain Gonzalez Release Status: Relea... More

U.S. Air Force Major General William S. Hinton Jr., Shining Hope commander, arrives at the U.S. sponsored refugee Camp Hope near Fier, Albania, June 1, 1999. MAJ Gen Hinton and his party visited with authorities, contractors of the U.S. sponsored Kosovo refugee camps in Fier, Albania. A right side front view of a US Navy MH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter is seen in the background

U.S. Air Force Major General William S. Hinton Jr., Shining Hope comma...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SHINING HOPE Base: Camp Hope, Fier Country: Albania (ALB) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Efrain Gonzalez Release Status: Releas... More

Children gathered around a distribution truck that

Children gathered around a distribution truck that

Children gathered around a distribution truck that brought 550-kilograms of rice to a refugee camp in the outskirts of Kabul on Dec. 6. The rice was purchased using money that was donated by several members of ... More

Recovery team members unload tent poles from an Ethiopian C-130 Hercules aircraft at Gambela South Airport, center of operations for forces that have arrived to recover the bodies of Texas Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland and members of his delegation. A search was initiated after the plane transporting Leland and 15 other people was reported missing en route to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border. The efforts resulted in discovery of the downed aircraft on a remote mountainside

Recovery team members unload tent poles from an Ethiopian C-130 Hercul...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Ethiopia (ETH) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Bill Thompson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

LTC Barbara Lauen, 401st Services Squadron commander, assists Ethiopian accident investigators as they attempt to identify the remains of aircraft crash victims at a temporary mortuary/identification center set up at Bole Airport. The remains of Texas Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland and other passengers were discovered following a three-day search and rescue mission which had been initiated after the plane transporting Leland and 15 other people was reported missing en route to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border

LTC Barbara Lauen, 401st Services Squadron commander, assists Ethiopia...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Addis Ababa Country: Ethiopia (ETH) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Bill Thompson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digita... More

Led by Marine STAFF SGT. T.J. Lewnes, a group of Kurdish men crosses a field while touring a refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq. U.S. and allied troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm

Led by Marine STAFF SGT. T.J. Lewnes, a group of Kurdish men crosses a...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORTDESERT STORM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Hatton Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

Kurdish men carry support poles across a field as they help to erect additional tents at a refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq. U.S. and allied troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm

Kurdish men carry support poles across a field as they help to erect a...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORTDESERT STORM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Hatton Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

Kurdish men sit in the grass to listen to a briefing at a refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq. U.S. and allied troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm

Kurdish men sit in the grass to listen to a briefing at a refugee camp...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORTDESERT STORM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Hatton Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

Kurdish men gather support poles to erect additional tents at a refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq. U.S. and allied troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm

Kurdish men gather support poles to erect additional tents at a refuge...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORTDESERT STORM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Hatton Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

A Kurdish refugee camp covers a mountainside in northern Iraq. Supplies are being delivered to the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

A Kurdish refugee camp covers a mountainside in northern Iraq. Supplie...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Milton R. Savage Release Status: Released to Public Combined M... More

Kurdish men at a refugee camp near the Turkey-Iraq border gather outside a barbed-wire enclosure to pick up food for their families. Thousands of Kurds fled into Turkey after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm. Troops from the U.S. and other nations have come to the camp to distribute aid and prepare the refugees for a move to organized camps within Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort

Kurdish men at a refugee camp near the Turkey-Iraq border gather outsi...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORTDESERT STORM Base: Iskenderun Country: Turkey (TUR) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Hatton Release Status: Releas... More

A Kurdish refugee camp covers a mountainside in northern Iraq. Supplies are being delivered to the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

A Kurdish refugee camp covers a mountainside in northern Iraq. Supplie...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Milton R. Savage Release Status: Released to Public Combined M... More

Kurdish women collect water from a stream at a refugee camp near Turkey's border with Iraq. The camps were established by the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes in northern Iraq to escape Iraqi government forces. Troops from the U.S. and other nations have come to the camps to distribute aid and prepare the refugees for a move to organized camps within Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort

Kurdish women collect water from a stream at a refugee camp near Turke...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Turkey (TUR) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN April Hatton Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mi... More

RADM Leighton W. Smith Jr., director of operations, U.S. European Command, speaks with U.S. military personnel at a Kurdish refugee camp near Cukurca. The camp was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

RADM Leighton W. Smith Jr., director of operations, U.S. European Comm...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq(IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark Kettenhofen Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mi... More

Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Dante DeAngelis sits near the open door of a British Mark 2 Commando helicopter as he takes photographs of the area around a refugee camp near the city of Zakhu. U.S. and coalition troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Dante DeAngelis sits near the open door ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Jerry Ireland Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mili... More

Tents cover the mountainside in the Kurdish refugee camp of Yekmel. Refugees are being transported from Yekmel to a newly established camp at Zakhu during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Tents cover the mountainside in the Kurdish refugee camp of Yekmel. Re...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq(IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH2(Ac) Mark Kettenhofen Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

Kurdish refugee children enjoy a ride in a truck as they are transported from Yekmel Camp in the mountains to a newly established camp at Zakhu during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugee children enjoy a ride in a truck as they are transport...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq(IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH2(Ac) Mark Kettenhofen Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

A Marine poses for a photograph with a Haitian refugee child at Camp McCalla, site of a humanitarian relief center for Haitians fleeing political and economic upheaval in their homeland

A Marine poses for a photograph with a Haitian refugee child at Camp M...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba(CUB) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark S. Kettenhofen Release Status: Released to Public Combined Milit... More

Refugees patiently wait for medical treatment at a refugee camp in Baidoa

Refugees patiently wait for medical treatment at a refugee camp in Bai...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE RELIEF Base: Baidoa Country: Somalia (SOM) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT. Dean Wagner Release Status: Released to Publ... More

A mother gives her child water at the Kitali refugee camp

A mother gives her child water at the Kitali refugee camp

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: Support Hope Base: Goma Country: Zaire (ZAR) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Val Gempis Release Status: Released to Public Combi... More

An aerial of a refugee camp near Kukes, Albania, from an MH-53E from HM-15. HM-15 is currently embarked on the Amphibious Assault ship, USS INCHON, (MCS 12) (not shown), USS INCHON which is operating in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Sea, supporting Operation Sustain Hope, a joint, combined NATO and U.S. military humanitarian relief effort in conjunction with civilian relief agencies. Operation Sustain Hope is bringing relief to thousands of refugees created from the recent unrest in the Kosovo region

An aerial of a refugee camp near Kukes, Albania, from an MH-53E from H...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SUSTAIN HOPE Base: Kukes Country: Albania (ALB) Scene Camera Operator: PH2(Aw) Brian Mcfadden Release Status: Released to Pu... More

US Air Force Technical Sergeant Bill Seighman, 31st Maintenance Squadron, Aviano Air Base, Italy, USAF Corporal Joeseph Paul and USAF Major Ted McClegkey, 16th Air Force, Aviano Air Base, Italy, build a swing set for Bosnian refugee children at Camp Kozina, Slovenia. Members of H.E.A.R.T., Humanitarian Essential Aid Relief Team aid Eastern European refugees and other displaced persons, through assessment of needs and collection and distribution of resources

US Air Force Technical Sergeant Bill Seighman, 31st Maintenance Squadr...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Camp Kozina Country: Slovenia (SVN) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Suzanne M. Jenkins, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Serv... More

An aerial view of a refugee camp in the city of Sabang on Pulau We Island, Indonesia

An aerial view of a refugee camp in the city of Sabang on Pulau We Isl...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Sabang State: Pulau We Country: Indonesia (IDN) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Travis M. Burns, Usn Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mili... More

An HC-130P Hercules aircraft stands in the background with engines running as members of a recovery team walk along the flight line following their arrival at Gambela South Airport. The airport is the center of operations for forces that have arrived to recover the bodies of Texas Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland and members of his delegation. A search was initiated after the plane transporting Leland and 15 other people was reported missing en route to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border. The efforts resulted in discovery of the downed aircraft on a remote mountainside

An HC-130P Hercules aircraft stands in the background with engines run...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Ethiopia (ETH) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Bill Thompson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Kurdish men wait to begin a tour of a refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq. U.S. and allied troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm

Kurdish men wait to begin a tour of a refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq. U...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORTDESERT STORM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Hatton Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

Kurdish children sit in their family's tent at a refugee camp near the Turkey-Iraq border. Thousands of Kurds fled into Turkey after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm. Troops from the U.S. and other nations have come to the camp to distribute aid and prepare the refugees for a move to organized camps within Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort

Kurdish children sit in their family's tent at a refugee camp near the...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORTDESERT STORM Base: Iskenderun Country: Turkey (TUR) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Hatton Release Status: Releas... More

Kurdish refugee children gather by a stream as a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter flies over their tent city near Zakhu. The camp was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugee children gather by a stream as a CH-46 Sea Knight heli...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq(IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark Kettenhofen Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mi... More

Lance CPL. Timothy D. Tinch of Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Service Support Group 24 (MSSG-24) fills plastic jugs with purified water as other Marines distribute the water to Kurds waiting outside the fence. The Marines are working in the refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq, as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

Lance CPL. Timothy D. Tinch of Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Service...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORTDESERT STORM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: JOC Shaw Release Status: Released to Public Combined M... More

A .50-caliber machine gun points from the doorway of a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter as the helicopter approaches a mountainside. The Super Stallion is enroute to a Kurdish refugee camp to deliver supplies. The supplies are being provided as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

A .50-caliber machine gun points from the doorway of a CH-53E Super St...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Milton R. Savage Release Status: Released to Public Combined M... More

A Kurdish woman bathes her child at a refugee camp near the Turkey-Iraq border. Thousands of Kurds fled into Turkey after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm. Troops from the U.S. and other nations have come to the camp to distribute aid and prepare the refugees for a move to organized camps within Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort

A Kurdish woman bathes her child at a refugee camp near the Turkey-Ira...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Iskenderum Country: Turkey (TUR) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Hatton Release Status: Released to Public... More

Kurds at a refugee camp near the Turkey-Iraq border wait in line near a German army CH-53G helicopter to receive an allotment of water. Thousands of Kurds fled into Turkey after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm. Troops from the U.S. and other nations have come to the camp to distribute aid and prepare the refugees for a move to organized camps within Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort

Kurds at a refugee camp near the Turkey-Iraq border wait in line near ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Iskenderum Country: Turkey (TUR) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Hatton Release Status: Released to Public... More

A Kurdish child sits beside her mother at a refugee camp near Turkey's border with Iraq. The camps were established by the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes in northern Iraq to escape Iraqi government forces. Troops from the U.S. and other nations have come to the camps to distribute aid and prepare the refugees for a move to organized camps within Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort

A Kurdish child sits beside her mother at a refugee camp near Turkey's...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Turkey (TUR) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN April Hatton Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mi... More

Kurdish refugees unload supplies from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter as Allied forces make a food delivery to the refugee camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort. The operation is an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugees unload supplies from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopt...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: JOC Marjie Shaw Release Status: Released to Public Combined Milita... More

A view of the children in the refugee camp located near Goma

A view of the children in the refugee camp located near Goma

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SUPPORT HOPE Base: Goma Country: Zaire (ZAR) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Andy Dunaway Release Status: Released to Public Comb... More

British Sergeant (SGT) Betts a member of the 280th United Kingdom Signal Squadron Krefield, Germany, has his head shaved in an auction fund raiser at Butmir Compound, Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina. The fund raiser was held for the Yahrina Refugee Camp

British Sergeant (SGT) Betts a member of the 280th United Kingdom Sign...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Camp Butmir State: Sarajevo Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Carl Fountain, USAF Release Status: Released to ... More

An aerial of a refugee camp near Kukes, Albania, from an MH-53E (not shown) from HM-15. HM-15 is currently embarked on the Amphibious Assault ship, USS INCHON (MCS-12) (not shown) which is operating in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Sea, supporting Operation Sustain Hope, a joint, combined NATO and U.S. military humanitarian relief effort in conjunction with civilian relief agencies. Operation Sustain Hope is bringing relief to thousands of refugees created from the recent unrest in the Kosovo region

An aerial of a refugee camp near Kukes, Albania, from an MH-53E (not s...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SUSTAIN HOPE Base: Kukes Country: Albania (ALB) Scene Camera Operator: PH2(Aw) Brian Mcfadden Release Status: Released to Pu... More

Ethnic Albanian kids and two mothers from Kosovo are curious about the camera (not shown) at a Turkish run refugee camp in Albania, May 5, 1999. There are several camps in Albania built and maintained by NATO allied countries to aid people fleeing Kosovo. This mission is in direct support of Operation Sustain Hope and Allied Force

Ethnic Albanian kids and two mothers from Kosovo are curious about the...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SUSTAIN HOPE Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Angela Stafford Release Status: Released to Public Combined Militar... More

Ethnic Albanian kids from Kosovo are curious about the camera (not shown) at a Turkish run refugee camp in Albania, May 5, 1999. There are several camps in Albania built and maintained by NATO allied countries to aid people fleeing Kosovo. This mission is in direct suppport of Operation Sustain Hope and Allied Force

Ethnic Albanian kids from Kosovo are curious about the camera (not sho...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SUSTAIN HOPE Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Angela Stafford Release Status: Released to Public Combined Militar... More

A guard tower at a Refugee Camp during a joint training and certification exercise in support of Cooperative Key 2003, which involves many different organizations at Krumovo Air Base (AB), Bulgaria (BGR)

A guard tower at a Refugee Camp during a joint training and certificat...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Krumovo Air Base Country: Bulgaria (BGR) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Billy Johnston, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Se... More

More than 37 families gathered around a distribution

More than 37 families gathered around a distribution

More than 37 families gathered around a distribution truck that brought 550-kilograms of rice to a refugee camp in the outskirts of Kabul on Dec. 6. The rice was purchased using money that was donated by severa... More

A Vietnamese refugee arrives after being evacuated from Saigon. After being processed at the air station passenger terminal, the refugees will depart for Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton. (SUBSTANDARD)

A Vietnamese refugee arrives after being evacuated from Saigon. After ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Marine Corps Air Station El Toro State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SGT D.E. Campbell Release... More

A temporary mortuary and identification center is set up at Bole Airport in preparation for receiving the remains of aircraft crash victims including Texas Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland. The remains were discovered following a three-day search and rescue mission which had been initiated after the plane transporting Leland and 15 other people was reported missing en route to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border

A temporary mortuary and identification center is set up at Bole Airpo...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Addis Ababa Country: Ethiopia (ETH) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Bill Thompson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digita... More

SGT Rodney Rivers, 1ST Special Operations Wing, installs an antenna on the roof of the Hilton Hotel for radio communications between the embassy control center, located at the hotel, and Bole Airport. The communications equipment is needed for search and rescue units taking part in a mission to locate Texas Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland and members of his delegation. A search was initiated after the plane transporting Leland and 15 other people was reported missing en route to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border

SGT Rodney Rivers, 1ST Special Operations Wing, installs an antenna on...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Addis Ababa Country: Ethiopia (ETH) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Bill Thompson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digita... More

An aircraft flies over the countryside while taking part in a search and rescue mission for Texas Rep. George T. (Mickey) Leland and members of his delegation. The plane transporting Leland and 15 other people was reported missing en route to a refugee camp near the Sudanese border

An aircraft flies over the countryside while taking part in a search a...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Ethiopia (ETH) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Bill Thompson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A view of some of the tents used to house troops assigned to support a refugee camp outside the city of Zakhu. U.S. and coalition troops are in Zakhu as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

A view of some of the tents used to house troops assigned to support a...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Jerry Ireland Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mili... More

Kurdish children bunch together to have their photograph taken while playing at a refugee camp near Turkey's border with Iraq. The camp is one of several that have been established by Kurds who left their homes in northern Iraq to escape Iraqi government forces. Troops from the U.S. and other nations have come to the camps to distribute aid and prepare the refugees for a move to organized camps within Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort

Kurdish children bunch together to have their photograph taken while p...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Turkey (TUR) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Hatton Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military... More

A group of Kurdish elders tours the city to ascertain whether or not it is safe for their people to return to Zakhu and the refugee camp on its outskirts. The camp was set up as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid the thousands of Kurds who left their homes to flee from Iraqi government forces following the fighting that broke out in that country after Operation Desert Storm

A group of Kurdish elders tours the city to ascertain whether or not i...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Zakhu Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 James R. Klein Release Status: Released to Public Co... More

Kurdish men sit with their families' belongings after arriving at a refugee camp on the Turkish-Iraqi border. Troops from the U.S. and other coalition nations have come to the region as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq

Kurdish men sit with their families' belongings after arriving at a re...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Cukurca Country: Turkey(TUR) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Kettenhofen Release Status: Released to Public... More

Tents cover the mountainside in the Kurdish refugee camp of Yekmel. Refugees are being transported from Yekmel to a newly established camp at Zakhu during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Tents cover the mountainside in the Kurdish refugee camp of Yekmel. Re...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq(IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Kettenhofen Release Status: Released to Public Combined Militar... More

A Kurdish refugee child guards her ears against the noise as a U.S. Army Chinook helicopter transports her and others from a mountain camp to a tent city near Zakhu. The tent city was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

A Kurdish refugee child guards her ears against the noise as a U.S. Ar...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq(IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark Kettenhofen Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mi... More

A Haitian refugee relaxes in her tent at Camp McCalla, site of a humanitarian relief center for Haitians fleeing political and economic upheaval in their homeland

A Haitian refugee relaxes in her tent at Camp McCalla, site of a human...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba(CUB) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark S. Kettenhoffen Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mili... More

Marine LCPL Donald Kenley, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina carries one of the Haitian refugee children at the Camp McCalla tent facilities on the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. More than 14,000 refugees attempted to reach the United States by boat and were picked up by the Coast Guard in international waters and transported to the base at Guantanamo Bay. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Marine LCPL Donald Kenley, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina carries one of...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Val Gempis Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A Haitian refugee salutes the camera during his stay at the Camp McCalla tent facilities on the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. More than 14,000 refugees attempted to reach the United States by boat and were picked up by the Coast Guard in international waters and transported to the base at Guantanamo Bay. Exact Date Shot Unknown

A Haitian refugee salutes the camera during his stay at the Camp McCal...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Val Gempis Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A sailor from the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH-9) holds a child at Zbirni Refugee Camp during a visit to the camp by crew members from the Guam. The sailors are visiting Zbirni during the Guam's port call in nearby Trieste, Italy

A sailor from the amphibious assault ship USS GUAM (LPH-9) holds a chi...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Kozina Country: Slovenia (SVN) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Bruce M. Morris Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Ph... More

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