Kurdish refugees converse in a field beside a tent city on the outskirts of Zakhu as an UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter delivers supplies in the background. The encampment was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid those fleeing 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: LCDR Skip Burdon
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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