Pararescueman A1C Lawrence Davis, on a jungle penetrator holding an injured man, is being hoisted up from atop a grain elevator into a hovering helicopter. Davis is from the 40th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service, Air Force Rescue Coordination Center

1LT Richard E. Dunshee, a co-pilot assigned to the 438th Military Airlift Wing, escorts one of the injured survivors of a DC-10 passenger aircraft crash to a waiting Military Airlift Command C-141 Starlifter. The C-141 is assigned to airlift 49 injured survivors and 35 of their family members to McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey

Rescue workers approach the wreckage of a Grumman AA-1B aircraft owned by COL Edwin L. Harvey, Headquarters, Tactical Air Command. Harvey was piloting the plane at the time of the crash, which occurred near Andrews Air Force Base, and sustained minor injuries

AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Charles E. Metrolis, a pararescue specialist assigned to Detachment 11, 39th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Wing, attends a hunting accident victim while airlifting him to a hospital aboard a helicopter

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Brian Davis, 48th Equipment Maintenance Squadron (EMS) stows the parachute canopy on a ACES II Emergency Personnel Parachute at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, during Operation NORTHERN WATCH

A "downed" Dutch air force helicopter crewman MSGT Albert Van Rhijn, white helmet, joins pararescueman A1C Scott Gearen on the jungle penetrator to be hoisted up to a hovering CH-53 Super Jolly helicopter. The airmen are participating in exercise Reforger '80

A San Bernardino sheriff's helicopter pilot approaches a medical center, in the background, for a landing. The pilot is airlifting "major aircraft accident victims" during an Air Force mass medical emergency training exercise being held at Norton Air Force Base, California

Pararescueman A1C Lawrence Davis, on a jungle penetrator holding an injured man, is being hoisted up from atop a grain elevator into a hovering helicopter. Davis is from the 40th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service, Air Force Rescue Coordination Center

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Summary

The original finding aid described this photograph as:

State: Washington (WA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Ervin A. PETTY

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Date

01/01/1981

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Source

The U.S. National Archives

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https://catalog.archives.gov/

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