Australia, Japan, U.S. Drop Food, Toys on Pacific Islands

Edit Topix 14 Dec 2015
Australian, Japanese and U.S. air force planes are dropping food and toys on remote atolls in the Pacific as part of the U.S. military's longest-running humanitarian relief mission. The U.S. Air Force began the annual Operation Christmas Drop in 1952 when a Guam-based air crew noticed residents on the island of Kapingamarangi waving at them as they flew overhead ... ....

Australia, Japan join US in ‘Christmas Drop’ scheme

Edit Taipei Times 14 Dec 2015
The US Air Force began the annual Operation Christmas Drop in 1952 when a Guam-based air crew noticed residents on the island of Kapingamarangi waving at them as they flew overhead ... It is a feel-good mission that also helps the US achieve political aims ... ....

Isolated Pacific islands get Christmas presents by parachute

Edit The Guardian 14 Dec 2015
Australian, Japanese and US air force planes deliver food and toys to remote atolls as part of the annual Operation Christmas Drop ... The packages will support 20,000 people across 56 islands in Micronesia, the Mariana Islands and Palau. The US Air Force began the annual Operation Christmas Drop in 1952 when a Guam-based air crew noticed residents on the island of Kapingamarangi waving at them as they flew overhead ... Related ... ....

Islanders survive five months on boat after drifting more than 1,000 miles

Edit The Daily Telegraph 05 Dec 2014
Men say they survived on rainwater and fish after being rescued from a small boat that was adrift at sea for five months. By Paul Chapman, Wellington. 2.17AM GMT 05 Dec 2014. Comments ... The pair were said to be suffering from severe sunburn but otherwise well, and were being treated at a hospital on the island ... The Yap Seagull is said to have found the survivors some 120 miles south of the remote Kapingamarangi Island on November 23 ... View ... ....
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