A convoy passing the camera position, along the road from Mogadishu to Biadoa, from right to left. Leading the convoy is a desert camouflaged M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) from the US Marine's 2nd Platoon, "C" Company, 3rd Light Assault Infantry Battalion, from Twentynine Palms, California. A Marine mans a M60 machine gun out the top turret of the Humvee. Following behind are large white United Nations trucks loaded with food supplies for feeding centers throughout Somalia. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE
Base: Just Outside Mogadishu
Country: Somalia (SOM)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 R.J. Oriez
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
12/01/1993
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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