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US Air Force (USAF) Lieutenant General (LGEN) Donald J. Wetekam, Deputy CHIEF of STAFF (DCS), Installations and Logistics, Headquarters (HQ) USAF, Washington D.C., yells fire in the hole prior to detonating a controlled detonation of excess munitions, set up by a USAF 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron (CES) Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team, while on an official visit to Balad Air Base (AB, Salah Ad Din province, Iraq (IRQ), during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Balad Air Base
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: A1C Heather M Norris, USAF
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.
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Date
29/07/2004
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The U.S. National Archives
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