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A Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 264 (HMM-264) CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter prepares to touch down on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS GUADALCANAL (LPH-7) during vertical replenishment operations. The helicopter is delivering supplies and equipment to be used by Marines onshore during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq
A Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 264 (HMM-264) CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter takes off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS GUADALCANAL (LPH-7) as another Sea Knight remains on the deck during vertical replenishment operations. The helicopters are delivering supplies and equipment to be used by Marines onshore during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq
Helicopter support team members run to the edges of a landing zone after attaching an M-151 light utility vehicle in a cargo net to the external cargo hook of a UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter. 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 southern Turkey and northern Iraq
A Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 8 (HC-8) UH-46 Sea Knight helicopter flies off from the amphibious assault ship USS GUADALCANAL (LPH-7) after delivering supplies during vertical replenishment operations. The material will be transported ashore for use by Marines taking part in Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq
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
A U.S. Army soldier leads a group of Kurdish men out of a Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 264 (HMM-264) CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter in a landing zone adjacent to 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
An Army UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter flies past a CH-47 Chinook helicopter, left, and another Black Hawk helicopter sitting idle on the ground. The helicopter are in Turkey to support Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees who have fled Iraqi government forces
An Army UH-60A Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter flies past a pair of CH-47 Chinook helicopters on the ground for maintenance. The helicopters are in Turkey to support Operation Provide Comfort , a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees who have fled Iraqi government forces
CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters from HM 264 Black Knights sit at the LZ inside Camp D.W. Sommers in Zakho, Iraq, during Operation PROVIDE COMFORT as part of the Kurdish relief effort near the end of Desert Storm. The helos would depart from this landing zone and make humanitarian relief drops of water and food to the hundreds of thousands of Kurdish refugees in the mountains of Northern Iraq and South-western Turkey
A Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 6 (HC-6) CH-46D Sea Knight helicopter flies past a group of Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24 MEU) as they wait for transportation to the humanitarian services support base set up in Silopi, Turkey. Marines of the 24th MEU are taking part in Operation Provide Comfort, the multinational effort to provide relief for Kurdish refugees fleeing from Iraqi government forces
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT
Base: Inskenderun
Country: Turkey (TUR)
Scene Camera Operator: Josn Brett Bryan
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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