Maintenance crews from the 44th Fighter Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, recover eight United States Air Force F-15 "Eagles". The USAF premier fighter aircraft arrived today in Townsville, Australia and will participate in this years Joint Exercise "TANDEM THRUST '97". TANDEM THRUST is a US Pacific Command sponsored exercise to test the capability of Australian and US command and control procedures
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: TANDEM THRUST '97
Base: Townsville
State: Queensland
Country: Australia (AUS)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Efrain Gonzalez, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
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Date
01/03/1997
Location
Kadena Air Base
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26.35647, 127.76702
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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