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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Vdari Range
Country: Kuwait (KWT)
Scene Camera Operator: Branden P. O'Brien
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
04/12/2000
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The U.S. National Archives
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