US Air Force (USAF) C-17A Globemaster III Loadmasters and a crew from the 86th Contingency Response Group Air Transportation (CRGAT) cell unload Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDR) at Bashur Air Field (AF) in Kurdish controlled Northern Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The HDR are a gift to the Iraqi people from the United States
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Bashur Air Field
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Stephen Faulisi, 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
16/04/2003
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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