Three thousand pounds of bombs go up in smoke. The bombs, left behind by the Soviets, were found behind a dormitory outside the perimeter of Kandahar International Airport, Afghanistan. They were collected and taken to a safe site and detonated by US Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Team, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM
Base: Kandahar Air Base
Country: Afghanistan (AFG)
Scene Major Command Shown: AMC
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Ricky A. Bloom, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
13/04/2002
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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