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Local community members joined with airmen from the U.S. Air Force, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, Royal Australian Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force, and Republic of Korea Air Force to participate in a bundle build event as part of Operation Christmas Drop at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Dec. 3, 2022. Operation Christmas Drop is the Department of Defense’s longest-running humanitarian airlift operation. The tradition began during the Christmas season in 1952 when a B-29 Superfortress aircrew saw islanders waving at them from the island of Kapingamarangi, 3,500 miles southwest of Hawaii. In the spirit of Christmas the aircrew dropped a bundle of supplies attached to a parachute to the islanders below, giving the operation its name. Today, air drop operations include more than 50 islands throughout the Pacific.
| Date Taken: | 12.03.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 12.06.2022 18:56 |
| Category: | B-Roll |
| Video ID: | 866987 |
| VIRIN: | 211203-F-KS661-159 |
| Filename: | DOD_109358135 |
| Length: | 00:04:10 |
| Location: | ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, GU |
| Downloads: | 13 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 13 |
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