A crewman aboard the cutter USCG MUNRO (WHEC 724) plots grid coordinates during salvage operations for downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL-007). The commercial jet was shot down by Soviet aircraft over Sakhalin Island on August 30, 1983 in the Sea of Japan. All 269 passengers and crewmen were killed
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Uscg Munro (WHEC 724)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 F. Barbante, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
17/09/1983
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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