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A forklift carrying a pallet of sacks of flour is driven to an awaiting U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules. The flour will be flown on a humanitarian relief flight to Sarajevo. The United States is conducting three flights a day and each flight contains food, medicine and blankets to the war-torn nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of the operation

A forklift carrying a pallet of sacks of flour is driven to an awaiting U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules. The flour will be flown on a humanitarian relief flight to Sarajevo. The United States is conducting three flights a day and each flight contains food, medicine and blankets to the war-torn nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of the operation

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Subject Operation/Series: OPERATION PROVIDE PROMISE

Base: Ancona

Country: Italy (ITA)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Mike Reinhardt

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

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08/05/1995

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The U.S. National Archives

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Explore: sarajevo

United Nations ground crew members return to their flightline office after unloading a C-130 Hercules loaded with humanitarian relief supplies. The three-year-old relief effort has been able to resume its missions after a five month hold due to aircraft receiving ground fire over Sarajevo

A United Nations ground crew member uses a M13K rough terrain forklift to unload a C-130 Hercules loaded with humanitarian relief supplies. The three-year-old relief effort has been able to resume its missions after a five month hold due to aircraft receiving ground fire over Sarajevo

Pallets of humanitarian relief supplies wait at the airport in preparation for loading onto a C-130 Hercules aircraft (in background) which will fly the supplies into Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on relief missions. The three-year-old relief effort has been able to resume its missions after a five month hold due to aircraft receiving ground fire over Sarajevo

1ST Lieutenant Jennifer Jones, 55th Signal Company, draws a number from the box for the raffle during the July 4th celebration at the Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps Headquarters site in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza

Members of the CINCSOUTH NATO Band play at the Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps Headquarters site in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza during the July 4th celebration. (Duplicate image, see also DASD9903193 or search 960704A4605G002)

Civilian repairmen fix structural damage to the Serbia Hotel which is the Headquarters of the Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps located in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza, Bosnia during Operation Joint Endeavor on July 10th 1996

Burning apartment building complex in Grbavica, a suburb of Sarajevo

US Army (USA) Major General (MGEN) Virgil L. Packett, Commander, Stabilization Forces (SFOR), poses with Santa Claus (MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Stewart Smith) outside the Clinical Center University of Sarajevo Pediatric Clinic during Operation Smile, a voluntary program designed to bring happiness to the children of Bosnia during Operation JOINT FORGE

Explore: flour

Luckenbach Flour Mill, 250 feet east of Monocacy Creek, 250 feet west of Main Street, 700 feet south of Broad Street, north side of Ohio Road, Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA

Sir, Please to deliver for the [blank] armed vessel under my command, [blank] rations of provisions of all species and rum. [blank] captain. To Mr. John Mitchell. Rations. No. [blank] beef, mutton or pork, bread, flour, rum, or [blank] beer, vegetables, [blank].

The Grain and Flour Exchange building, Boston, Massachusetts

Flour, flour everywhere is ready to be up loaded and delivered to the people of Bosnia. A United States C-130 is in the distance and awaits its turn to be up-loaded. The U.S. flies three mission a day into Sarajevo and provides 35,000 pounds of humanitarian relief to the people of Bosnia a day

French United Nations (UN) troops push a pallet of flour off a C-130 at Sarajevo Airport

U.S. Air Force SENIOR AIRMAN Woodruff, 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, places sacks of wheat flour on a pallet in preparation for loading onto a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules which will fly the flour into Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina on a relief mission. The three-year-old relief effort has been able to resume their mission after a five month hold due to aircraft receiving ground fire over Sarajevo. The C-130 crews fly two missions a day into the Sarajevo airport dropping off approximately 30 metric tons of wheat flour to the besieged residents

View from Moulder School distributing station, showing tons of flour on sidewalk.

View from Moulder School distributing station, showing tons of flour on sidewalk.

Explore: bosnia herzegovina

General George A. Joulwan, U.S. Army, NATO's Commander in Europe, holds a press conference in Tuzla AB, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The General was at Tuzla AB to see how Operation Joint Endeavor was progressing

Implementation Force (IFOR) forklifts at Tuzla AB, Bosnia-Herzegovina line up to quickly download vital cargo from arriving C-130's. The C-130's are airlifting supplies in support of Operation Joint Endeavor

SENIOR AIRMAN John Gonzales, 86th Transportation Squadron, Ramstein AB, Germany, secures a pallet to a flatbed truck before it heads to Tuzla AB, Bosnia-Herzegovina in support of Operation Joint Endeavor

A close-up view of the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) screen in a Navy EA-6B Prowler aircraft. The screen is used to locate by triangulation, in coordination with intelligence officers, where threats are coming from. The Prowler protects aircraft flying over Bosnia-Herzegovina with either their jamming capability or HARM (High-Speed Anti-Radiation missiles). Exact Date Shot Unknown

Pallets of humanitarian relief supplies wait at the airport in preparation for loading onto a C-130 Hercules aircraft (in background) which will fly the supplies into Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on relief missions. The three-year-old relief effort has been able to resume its missions after a five month hold due to aircraft receiving ground fire over Sarajevo

A bow view of the guided missile destroyer USS ARLEIGH BURKE (DDG-51) underway en route to the Adriatic Sea. The vessel is part of a battle group that will be replacing the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) battle group currently assisting in maintaining the U.N.-mandated no-fly zone over BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA