Operation Provide Promise
1992-96 humanitarian airlift of the Yugoslav Wars
Operation Provide Promise was a humanitarian relief operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Yugoslav Wars, from 2 July 1992, to 9 January 1996, which made it the longest running humanitarian airlift in history.
By the end of the operation, aircraft from 21 countries had flown 12,886 sorties into Sarajevo, delivering 159,622 tons of food, medicine, and supplies and evacuating over 1,300 wounded people. The US flew 3,951 C-130, 236 C-141, and 10 C-17 airland sorties (delivering 62,801.5 tons), as well as 2,222 C-130 air-drop sorties.
There were 260 incidents, including the shooting down of an Italian Air Force plane in September 1992, which killed all four crew on board.
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- Sarajevo airport J3002-SPT-96-00009-0011.jpg by Sgt. Efrain Gonzalez, U.S. Air Force, Public domain
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