The US Army (USA) Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery Regiment (2/20th), 4th Fires Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, launches a Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) rocket from Forward Operating Base (FOB) Q-West, Qayyarah Airfield (AF) West (Q-West), Ninawa Province, Iraq (IRQ), against an enemy Iraqi insurgent target as part of a tactical mission during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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The US Army (USA) Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery Regiment (2/20th), 4th Fires Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, launches a Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) rocket from Forward Operating Base (FOB) Q-West, Qayyarah Airfield (AF) West (Q-West), Ninawa Province, Iraq (IRQ), against an enemy Iraqi insurgent target as part of a tactical mission during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Qayyarah Air Field

State: Ninawa

Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Scene Camera Operator: SSG J. H. Christopher, III, USA

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Iraq War aka Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, under the code-name "Operation Iraqi Freedom". 248,000 soldiers from the United States, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers and 194 Polish soldiers from Special Forces unit GROM sent to Kuwait for the invasion. The invasion force was also supported by Iraqi Kurdish militia troops, estimated to number upwards of 70,000.

A very large dataset of various big guns, howitzers, mortars, columbiads, all types of canon-like things - everything besides machine guns and rockets. This collection as well as all massive collections on Picryl.com required two steps: First, we picked a set to train AI vision to recognize cannon artillery, and after that, ran all 25M+ images in our database through our image recognition network. All media in the collection is in the public domain. There is no limitation on the dataset usage - educational, scientific, or commercial.

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05/01/2006
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The U.S. National Archives
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