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Kurdish refugees and military personnel unload supplies from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugees unload supplies from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter as Allied forces make a food delivery to the refugee camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort. The operation is an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugees unload supplies from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter as Allied forces make a food delivery to the refugee camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort. The operation is an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

An airman motions to Kurdish refugees as they approach a CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter that has landed to deliver supplies to the refugees camp. The food delivery is part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

A Marine CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter descends on a Kurdish village to deliver food supplies to refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq. The food delivery is part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees

U.S. military personnel and Kurdish refugees unload supplies from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter. Military personnel are in the area as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

U.S. military personnel and Kurdish refugees unload supplies from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter. Military personnel are in the area as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugees unload supplies from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter as Allied forces make a food delivery to the refugee camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort. The operation is an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

A Marine CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter descends on a Kurdish village to deliver food supplies to refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq. The food delivery is part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees

Airmen and Kurdish refugees unload food supplies from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in Northern Iraq

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Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT

Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Scene Camera Operator: JOC Shaw

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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27/04/1991
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