An aerial view of part of an Iraqi airfield being repaired by members of a Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (NMCB-133) air detachment. The Seabees are repairing the airfield, which had been under construction prior to the start of the Persian Gulf war, 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: PH2 Dante Deangelis
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Tags
Date
01/04/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
Copyright info
No known copyright restrictions