Airlifters Transport Forces to Haiti for Operation Uphold Democracy

Sept. 19, 1994

Operation Uphold Democracy begins. Air Force airlifters transport U.S. military forces to Haiti to restore the country’s democratically elected president and stem the flow of Haitian refugees to the US.

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