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US Navy Photographers Mate Second Class (PH2) Chad Vann, Still/Videographer, Fleet Imaging Command Atlantic, Norfolk, Virginia, applies camouflage make-up prior to moving out with his convoy element. Photographers Mate Second Class (PH2) Vann is one of 120 Air Force, Navy, and British Army Reservists currently undergoing the two-week field-training course. This months class is the first Joint/Combine exercise in Warfare Centers school history

Members of the Lebanese Armed Forces conduct checks in a section of the city that was bombed during a confrontation between Lebanonis and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Marines from the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit have deployed here to participate in a multinational peacekeeping operation

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A burned Iraqi T-55 main battle tank and civilian automobile lie along the Basra-Kuwait Highway, the scene of one of the final Coalition attacks as Iraqi forces retreated from the city during Operation Desert Storm

A burned Iraqi T-55 main battle tank and civilian automobile lie along the Basra-Kuwait Highway, the scene of one of the final coalition attacks as Iraqi forces retreated from the city during Operation Desert Storm

A destroyed Iraqi T-55 main battle tank lies along the Basra-Kuwait Highway, the scene of one of the final Coalition attacks as Iraqi forces retreated from the city during Operation Desert Storm

A destroyed Iraqi T-55 main battle tank, painted with graffiti by Coalition troops, lies amidst other destroyed vehicles along the highway between Kuwait City and Basra, Iraq, following the retreat of Iraqi forces from Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm.

Two Iraqi T-55 main battle tanks lie abandoned on the Basra-Kuwait Highway near Kuwait City after the release of Iraqi forces from the city during Operation Desert Storm

An abandoned Iraqi T-55A main battle tank lies on the side of the road into Kuwait City during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

A destroyed Iraqi T-55 main battle tank and supply truck, painted with graffiti by Coalition troops, lie along the highway between Kuwait City and Basra, Iraq, following the retreat of Iraqi forces from Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm.

An Iraqi soldier, killed in one of the final attacks by the Coalition as Iraqi forces retreated from the city, lies beneath a destroyed civilian automobile during Operation Desert Storm. In the background is an Iraqi T-55 main battle tank

An abandoned Iraqi T-55A main battle tank sits on the side on the road into Kuwait City during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

A burned civilian automobile and an Iraqi T-55 main battle tank lie along the Basra-Kuwait Highway, the scene of one of the final Coalition attacks as Iraqi forces retreated from the city during Operation Desert Storm

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM

Base: Kuwait City

Country: Kuwait(KWT)

Scene Camera Operator: SPC. Bill Mohl

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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04/03/1991
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