030520-N-9319H-002 Central Command Area of Responsibility (May 20, 2003) -- A flight deck handler prepares an E-2C Hawkeye assigned to the ÒWallbangersÓ of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron One Seventeen (VAW-117) to launch at the start of evening flight operations aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68). The Nimitz Carrier Strike Force and Carrier Air Wing Eleven (CVW-11) are currently deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate IraqÕs weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. Navy photo b
030520-N-9319H-002 Central Command Area of Responsibility (May 20, 2003) -- A flight deck handler prepares an E-2C Hawkeye assigned to the ÒWallbangersÓ of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron One Seventeen (VAW-117) to launch at the start of evening flight operations aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68). The Nimitz Carrier Strike Force and Carrier Air Wing Eleven (CVW-11) are currently deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate IraqÕs weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. Navy photo by Airman Angel G. Hilbrands. (RELEASED) E-2C Hawkeye Startvorbereitung
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