Back to the gallerySeptember 19, 1994
A gray launch marked Whidbey Island and flying a U.S. flag beside the white hull of a Coast Guard cutter, whose deck holds people in orange life jackets; a gray warship in the background.

A Navy boat, the Whidbey Island, moors alongside a Coast Guard cutter before the cutter gets underway for Operation Able Vigil, Guantanamo Bay, September 19, 1994. Photo by PA1 Don Wagner, U.S. Coast Guard.

Photo: PA1 Don Wagner / U.S. Coast Guard. Public domain (U.S. federal government work).

Related chapter: The Rafter Crisis (1994)

Date
September 19, 1994
Place
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Photographer
PA1 Don Wagner
Archive
U.S. Coast Guard
License
Public domain (U.S. federal government work)
Original
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