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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

AMERICAN PARATROOPERS IN HAITI

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Paratroopers from the Eighty-Second Airborne Division "All Americans" of the United States Army wait at the Port-au-Prince, Haiti, airport after an early morning flight on Saturday 16 January 2010.

As many as three and a half thousand young United States Army paratroopers were expected to arrive in the next few days to begin securing the area for aid drop-off.


A United States Navy HH-60H "Seahawk" helicopter waits as paratroopers from the Eighty-Second Airborne Division stack supplies on Saturday 16 January 2010, that will be delivered to the forward operating bases in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

No room was spared, as aircraft were packed with troops and supplies.


A combat veteran, Specialist Joseph Dillon from the First Squadron, Seventy-Third Calvary Regiment, Eighty-Second Airborne Division, looks at a collapsed building as he sits in the back of a vehicle on the way to the airport to pick up disaster relief supplies in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday 17 January 2010.

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