U.S. Marine Corps equipment is offloaded from the container ship SS LYRA during Exercise Eastern Wind '83, the amphibious landing phase of Exercise Bright Star '83. Two Somalian navy (ex-Soviet) Osa II Class fast attack craft (missile) are visible in the upper left
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: EASTERN WIND '83BRIGHT STAR '83
Base: Berbera
Country: Somalia (SOM)
Scene Camera Operator: GUNNERY SGT. R. W. Hower
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Tags
Date
17/08/1983
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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