Operation Provide Comfort [17/19]

Call Number
350-4-3:52/1

General information

Call No.:
350-4-3:52/1
Part of series
HU OSA 350-4-3 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Middle East: Iraq
Located at
BetaSP NTSC #52 / No. 1
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00009857
Date of production
1991-05-01
Date
1991
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
English
Duration
52 min.

Content

Form/Genre
Raw material
Contents Summary
Relief footage continued: covers Seabees (Construction Battalions of the United States Navy) unloading equipment with forklifts in Zakhu, Iraq on April 29, 1991. The tape shows troops with field packs walking through the fields, and USMC CH-46Es unloading pallets of cartons of supplies. Contains interviews with individual Seabees. Also, documented here are the Kurdish refugee camps in the mountains of Northern Iraq and Turkey on May 1, 1991. Contains Joint Task Force groups meeting; USA medics giving measles inoculations to children; and an interview with Sgt. Avery (USA), the medical coordinator of the camp.

Context

Associated Names
Aerospace Audiovisual Service (Producer)