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A Fight in Afghanistan

16 November 2001: Two Boeing MH-47E Chinook helicopters, belonging to the 160th Special Operation Aviation Regiment, from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, can be seen in the news article below operating across the desert in Afghanistan. Their mission - seek out and destroy the Taliban regime and the Osama Bin Laden terrorist network.

Special Forces Chinooks operating in the Deserts of Afghanistan.

About the photograph in the article above: Crossing by air over hills into Afghanistan from Tajikistan, United States Special Operations soldiers keep watch from the open back end of a US Army Special Forces Chinook helicopter, near Khwaja Bahuaddin on 15 November 2001.

Loading ammunition aboard a CH-47 at Bagram Air Base.

In this handout photo from the U.S. Air Force made available Thursday, 7 March 2002, soldiers hurry to load ammunition onto a waiting CH-47D Chinook helicopter at Bagram Air Base. The helicopter, part of B Company - "Hercules", 159th Aviation Regiment from Hunter Army Airfield, near Savannah, Georgia, later took off to deliver the cargo to troops fighting in the mountains near Gardez, Afghanistan, Saturday, 2 March 2002.

CH-47D helicopters at Bagram Air Base, 8 March 2002.

U.S. soldiers sit on a vehicle on the tarmac at Bagram Air Base, 65 km (40 miles) north of Kabul, Friday, 8 March 2002, near CH-47D Chinook helicopters belonging to A Company, 7th Battalion, 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, that are ready to take off for Gardez to participate in the campaign to flush out Taliban and al-Qaeda holdouts in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.

A U.S. CH-47D Chinook helicopter takes off from Bagram Air Base in search of the Taliban.

A U.S. CH-47D Chinook helicopter, belonging to A Company, 7th Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, takes off at Bagram Air Base, in Afghanistan, 65 km (40 miles) north of Kabul, Friday, 8 March 2002, for Gardez to take part in the campaign to flush out Taliban and al-Qaeda holdouts in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan. Cobra helicopter gunships are seen in the background.

86-01669 in Afghanistan practicing cargo loading maneuvers.

Canadian 3rd PPCLI soldiers practice conducting internal loading techniques utilizing U.S. Army CH-47D Chinook helicopter 86-01669, assigned to A Company, 7th Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in preparation for Operation Anaconda. The BV-206 tracked vehicle, at 7 tons (14,000 pounds), is easily carried by the CH-47D and is narrow enough to easily roll on and off its rear ramp.