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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Subject Operation/Series: SHADOW HAWK

Base: Azarq Air Base

Country: Jordan (JOR)

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Bob Simons, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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01/09/1987
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