Host Nation locals watch from a hill outside the perimeter fence as a US Air Force Special Operations Command MC-130H Combat Talon II takes-off from Brazzaville Airport, Republic of Congo. The MC-130H was participating in PHOENIX GAUNTLET. PHOENIX GAUNTLET deployed enabling forces as part of contingency planning to prepare for a possible evacuation of Americans from Zaire, gripped in a civil war
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Subject Operation/Series: PHOENIX GAUNTLET
Base: Brazzaville
Country: Congo (COG)
Scene Camera Operator: A1C Gregory L. Davis, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
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Date
05/04/1997
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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