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Caption:
A U.S. Air Force MC-130 Combat Talon approaches a KC-135T Stratotanker
to refuel in flight as the two aircraft fly over the central region of
Africa on Sept. 15, 1997. The MC-130 is carrying search and
rescue teams from RAF Mildenhall, England, to Libreville, Gabon.
Libreville is the staging area for U.S. air and sea rescue operations
currently underway to find survivors from a U.S. Air Force C-141 cargo
aircraft which crashed Sept. 13, 1997, near the Ascension Islands off
of AfricaÕs western coast. The C-141 was assigned to the 305th
Air Mobility Wing, McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., and has been reported
missing for more than 36 hours. The Stratotanker is deployed from
the 384th Air Refueling Squadron, McConnell Air Force Base,
Kan. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Efrain Gonzalez, U.S. Air
Force.
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