2 ASDF C-130 aircraft arrive in Amman for aid to Iraq

2 ASDF C-130 aircraft arrive in Amman for aid to Iraq

AMMAN, Jordan - Japanese advance party members welcome one of the two C-130 transport planes of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) arriving at Marka airport in Amman, Jordan, on July 14 in the first dispatch of Self-Defense Forces (SDF) aircraft to assist in the reconstruction of postwar Iraq.

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