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| A Fight in Afghanistan |
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| A British Royal Air Force (RAF) crew unloads aid from an RAF Chinook helicopter at Nahrin, in northern Afghanistan Friday, 29 March 2002. The RAF delivered food, blankets, and other aid to villagers affected by the earthquake that devastated Afghanistan on Monday, 25 March 2002. |
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| Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai walks off a U.S. Army Chinook helicopter, assigned to B Company - "Hercules", 159th Aviation Regiment, 18th Aviation Brigade, located at Hunter Army Airfield, Savannah, Georgia, as he arrived Saturday, 30 March 2002, at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Karzai's first visit to the base was to thank the coalition forces for their help in freeing Afghanistan from the al-Qaeda and Taliban. |
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| A lone U.S. Army MH-47E Chinook, assigned to the 160th Special Operation Aviation Regiment (SOAR) - "Nightstalkers", Fort Campbell, Kentucky, patiently awaits the next assignment in the back country of Afghanistan while ground crews check the security of the camp pee-rimeter, March 2002. Click-N-Go Here to see a larger version. |
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| British Marine Commandos walk off an RAF Chinook helicopter after going through landing zone drills at Bagram Air Base Thursday on 4 April 2002. The marines were practicing for combat operations which are expected to begin mid April. So far 120 Marines have arrived at Bagram with the remainder of the 1,700 strong force expected in the next few days. |
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| Soldiers from the American 101st Airborne Division pack into a Chinook helicopter on their way to the Zhawar Kili mountain complex, Paktia province, eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, 2 April 2002. The soldiers were taking part in the Operation Mountain Lion which continued offensive operations after the success of Operation Anaconda. |
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| Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, having just arrived on Tuesday, 2 April 2002, in the departing Chinook helicopter, take part in operation "Mountain Lion," in the Zhawar Kili mountain complex, Paktia province, Eastern Afghanistan. |
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| A CH-47D Chinook helicopter, foreground, assigned to A Company, 7th Battalion, 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, is protected by one of two AH-64 Apache helicopters as they make their way from Bagram Air Base, near Kabul, to Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Sunday, 7 April 2002, with soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division as they return from Operation Mountain Lion in the Zhawar Mountains. |
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| Afghan security men look at a Russian built MI-26 helicopter at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Monday, 8 April 2002. The helicopter, the largest single rotor helicopter in the world, was used to lift a U.S. Army MH-47E Chinook helicopter back to Bagram Monday. The Chinook [92-00476], the second of two damaged MH-47E helicopters in use by the 160th Special Operation Aviation Regiment from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, had been stranded in the Shahicot Valley since being forced to make an emergency landing after taking enemy fire during Operation Anaconda. |
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Left, a CH-47 Chinook, assigned to B Company - "Hercules", 159th Aviation Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield, near Savannah, Georgia, prepares to land for the extraction of Canadian ground security forces from 1st Platoon, A Company, 3rd Battalion Princess Patrichas Canadian Light Infantry, as well as U.S. personnel on 11 April 2002, at a site northeast of Kandahar where an Apache helicopter crash landed while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. |
| The Apache helicopter, pictured on the right, was assessed and the decision was made to destroy it. The two crewmembers were safely recovered and sustained no life threatening injuries. Click-N-Go on the photograph to enlarge. |
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| British Royal Marines prepare to board an RAF helicopter at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, on Saturday 13 April 2002, before their first operational insertion into the mountains of Afghanistan. They will be flown in by Chinook helicopters, and will be joined by soldiers from 59 Commando Royal Engineers and 29 Commando Battery Royal Artillery. |
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| British soldiers, members of the 29th Royal Artillery Commandos take part in a joint exercise with Royal Air Force Chinook helicopters at the Bagram Air Base north of Kabul, on 14 April 2002. Afghanistan's interim government dispatched a governor from the capital Sunday to broker a truce between rival commanders whose troops battled for two days in the hills west of Kabul. |
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| Sitting atop a mountain's highest point near the border with Pakistan, known as Objective Ginger, is the remains of the MH-47E Chinook helicopter, 92-00475, that was forced down during the fighting in early March when U.S. troops tried to land. As Operation Ptarmigan gets underway, a British Royal Marine Commando passes by the destroyed Chinook helicopter in eastern Afghanistan on 17 April 2002. Britain's Royal Marines joined the search for Taliban and al-Qaeda fugitives in eastern Afghanistan, officials announced Tuesday, marking the combat debut for an elite force trained to operate in small units in mountains that rise above 10,000 feet. |
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| A British Royal Marine Commando stands next to the remains of an U.S. Army MH-47E helicopter during operations on Wednesday, 17 April 2002, in eastern Afghanistan. The helicopter was disabled during Operation Anaconda and then blown up later by the U.S. military to keep it from falling into enemy hands. British marines have gone into action with allied U.S. and Afghan troops to track down remaining Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters. 9 personnel were killed in the crash. Three of the nine personnel on board were members of 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, from Hunter Army Airfield, Savannah, Georgia, were killed in the 4 March 2002 crash of the helicopter. |
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