Members of a boarding team from the guided missile destroyer USS GOLDSBOROUGH (DDG-20) deploy across the deck of the Iraqi merchant vessel Zanoobia as they prepare to conduct a search of the ship's cargo. The GOLDSBOROUGH is one of the ships of the Maritime Interdiction Force (MIF), a multinational force organized at the start of Operation Desert Shield to enforce U.S. trade sanctions against Iraq.
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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD
Country: Northern Arabian Sea
Scene Camera Operator: OS2 John Bouvia
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
04/09/1990
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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