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Somali vendors ply their wares on a busy city street during the multinational relief effort Operation Restore Hope

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Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE

Base: Modadishu

Country: Somalia (SOM)

Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Joe Gawlowicz

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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somali vendors somali vendors wares city street city street relief effort relief effort operation operation restore hope high resolution jo 1 joe gawlowicz us national archives somalia
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01/12/1992
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Medium shot, rear view of two US Army 5-ton Cargo trucks being loaded with material by four Soldiers. Snow is on the ground at Fort Drum, New York. A line of red brick buildings is seen at the right side of the frame. This mission is in support of Operation Restore Hope

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Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyards. Tons of scrap at the auto graveyard of the Lenox Motor Company, Colmar Manor, Maryland were withheld from the war effort. Donovan, the owner, refused to sell at established junk prices. The material has since been requisitioned by the U.S. government

A member of Naval Construction Battalion 1 (NMCB-1), assisted by a Somali, uses a chain saw to cut down a stump in a school playground. NMCB-1 is conducting a civic action program to improve the school during the multinational relief effort OPERATION RESTORE HOPE

Meduim shot of an open area with tan colored tents in the background. During the leveling of the ground for the tent city built by the 823rd RedHorse Team, Hurlburt Field, Florida, some human remains were discovered. USAF BGEN Thomas Mikolajcik, Commander AFFOR, not shown, ordered a barrier erected around the grounds so the graves would not be disturbed. This mission is in support of Operation Restore Hope

Three US Army personnel from the 511th Military Police Company, Fort Drum, New York, stand guard outside the entrance of one of the estimated 38 bunkers found outside the town of Afgoi, just north of the city of Mogadishu, Somalia. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope

[Occupational portrait of a salesman, three-quarter length, seated, displaying his wares]

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