A pair of Tiger Brigade M-1A1 Abrams main battle tanks and an M-2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle provide security for the 2nd Marine Division area of responsibility near Al Jahra after the Operation Desert Storm cease-fire. A destroyed Iraqi tank is in the background
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM
Country: Kuwait (KWT)
Scene Camera Operator: STAFF SGT. J. R. Ruark
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Tanks in mass culture. Tanks were first developed separately and simultaneously by Great Britain and France as a means to break the deadlock of trench warfare on the Western Front. Their first use in combat was by the British Army in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. The name "tank" was adopted by the British during the early stages of their development, as a security measure to conceal their purpose.
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Date
01/03/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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