Air Force SSgt. Hector Frietze, right, and SrAirman John Allum, left, 36th Airlift Squadron loadmasters, wave to residents after airdropping bundles of donated goods during Operation Christmas Drop 2020 December 7, 2020 onto Angaur, Republic of Palau. Operation Christmas is the longest-running humanitarian airlift operation begun in 1952 to assist remote islanders scattered across 50 islands in the Pacific.

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