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At Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, a United States Army (USA) and US Air Force (USAF), joint honor guard watch over the arriving transfer cases containing five of the remaining seven US service members killed in a US Army MH-47E Chinook helicopter accident at sea off the Philippines

At Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, a United States Army (USA) and US Air Force (USAF), joint honor guard watch over the arriving transfer cases containing five of the remaining seven US service members killed in a US Army MH-47E Chinook helicopter accident at sea off the Philippines

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Base: Kadena Air Base

State: Okinawa

Country: Japan (JPN)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Mary L. Smith, USAF

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

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04/04/2002

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The U.S. National Archives

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