A cloud of smoke rises over a tent city for Kurdish refugees as explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team members detonate Iraqi ordnance found near the camp. U.S. military personnel in the area are taking part in Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT
Base: Zakhu
Country: Iraq(IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: LTJG Don Savage
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/04/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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