CMDR Donald Thurston sprays an area with insecticide in an effort to combat mosquitoes and other insects. Thurston is part of a preventive medicine team inspecting refugee camps for unsanitary conditions which might promote disease. The team is in the area during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT
Country: Iraq(IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 James R. Klein
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
27/05/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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