U.S. military personnel from the Joint POW/ MIA Command (JPAC) Mortuary Affairs team Thai military personnel unload supplies from a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft during Operation Unified Assistance at Phuket, Thailand, on Jan. 3, 2005. The JPAC team, that include doctors and forensic specialists, will help identify the bodies of westerners that were killed by the tsunami here. More than 18,000 U.S. military personnel are providing humanitarian assistance in Southwest Asia after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered devastating tsunamis that killed over 250,000 people in the region. (USAF PHOTO by TECH. SGT. Cohen A. Young) (Released)
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Phuket
Country: Thailand (THA)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Cohen A. Young, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
03/01/2005
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The U.S. National Archives
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