A RAAF Boeing 707 landing at Ras Nasrani airfield (south camp) with pallets of food and beer ...

Place Africa: Egypt, Frontier, Sinai
Accession Number P01917.009
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour
Physical description Colour
Maker Coleman, P
Place made Egypt: Frontier, Sinai
Date made 9 December 1984
Conflict Period 1980-1989
Egypt [Sinai] (MFO), 1982-1986, 1993 -
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Description

A RAAF Boeing 707 landing at Ras Nasrani airfield (south camp) with pallets of food and beer donated by the Returned Services League (RSL). Ras Nasrani, called Ophir by the Israelis, was the airfield from which the Entebbe raid was launched. The supplies are for Australians serving in the Sinai with the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO).