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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1992
Page
6
In Mogadishu the first international relief flight in over a month lands as more than 1,000 Marines arrive. The city, long shelled and splintered, sees crowds returning, gunfire fading, and streets filling with hopeful civilians. Children laugh, windows rise, and welders remove machine gun mounts from vehicles.
LCAC hovercraft deliver troops through surf to beaches while AAVs serve as amphibious armored vehicles. Each carries 25 fully equipped Marines for ship to shore operations and on land.
AP lists U S relief groups taking Somalia donations including American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee AmeriCares Disaster Relief Fund of Bnai Brith CARE Caritas International Catholic Relief Services Christian Children’s Fund Direct Relief International Food for the Hungry Inter Lutheran Disaster Relief with full addresses and phone numbers.
More than 600 Marines and sailors departed Southern California bases for Riverside then Mogadishu as part of Operation Restore Hope. Families cried and shared last moments as roughly 4,000 to 5,000 additional troops were slated to deploy from Camp Pendleton and Twentynine Palms to join Regimental Combat Team 7.
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