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2005/08 - Hurricane Katrina Rescue & Relief Operations

Hurricane Katrina Rescue & Relief Operations

CH-47 Chinook

2005

Pilot views flooded homes. He wears flight gear and a helmet inside the helicopter.
Flooded suburb with a Chinook helicopter flying overhead, some houses submerged.
Chinook helicopter flies over flooded homes after a disaster.
Chinook helicopter flies over a flooded city with skyscrapers in the distance.
Crew member in helmet looks into plane's opened cargo bay, revealing supplies in white bundles.
Chinook helicopter carries white bags over a field filled with similar bags. Blue sky.

“After playing a critical role in the tsunami relief efforts earlier this year, the Republic of Singapore was one of the first countries that understood the devastation in our nation and immediately reached out to help those left in Katrina’s wake.”

“The American people were deeply grateful for Singapore’s help…RSAF personnel were saving lives in Louisiana and the other Gulf Coast States, and Americans would long remember this.”

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