Three Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (NMCB-133) discuss plans to drain the water from a bomb crater on the runway at an Iraqi airfield. The airfield, which had been under construction prior to the start of the Persian Gulf war, is being repaired to allow relief supplies to be flown in for nearby Kurdish refugees as part of Operation Provide Comfort
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT
Base: Sirsenk
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Jerry Ireland
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/05/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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