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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM

Country: Saudi Arabia(SAU)

Scene Camera Operator: TECH. SGT. Fernando Serna

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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23/12/1991
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