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    Operation Colony Glacier 2024 [Image 7 of 21]

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    Operation Colony Glacier 2024

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, ALASKA, UNITED STATES

    07.31.2024

    Photo by Tech. Sgt. Donald Hudson  

    Alaskan NORAD Region/Alaskan Command/11th Air Force

    U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Wynn Quinton, food service apprentice, 673rd Force Support Squadron, and Operation Colony Glacier recovery team member, checks ice anchors for teammates searching through debris inside a crevasse at Colony Glacier, Alaska, July 31, 2024. Operation Colony Glacier is an effort to recover the remains of service members and wreckage from a C-124 Globemaster II that crashed in November 1952 with 52 military members on board. As of May 2024, 47 of the 52 service members have been identified. The recovery effort has taken place every summer since 2012 by personnel from Alaskan Command, 11 th Airborne Division, Alaska National Guard, Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, U.S. Army Alaska, 673rd Air Base Wing, 3rd Wing
    and Detachment 1, 66th Training Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Don Hudson)

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    Date Taken: 07.31.2024
    Date Posted: 08.14.2024 14:06
    Photo ID: 8589501
    VIRIN: 240731-F-EZ530-1008
    Resolution: 6048x4024
    Size: 12.35 MB
    Location: JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, ALASKA, US

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