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Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: UPHOLD DEMOCRACY
Base: Cap Haitien
Country: Haiti (HTI)
Scene Camera Operator: LCPL C. S. Fowler (Usmc)
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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