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Members of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing listen to a briefing as they prepare to deploy to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield

Members of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing wait at a processing point as the wing prepares to deploy to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield

Members of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing wait for their paperwork to be processed as they prepare to deploy to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield

Air crew members of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing don flight gear as they prepare to deploy to Saudi Arabia in support of Operation Desert Shield

Two flight officers with the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing read over some briefing information while preparing to deploy to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield

Members of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing review documents to be submitted in the processing line as they prepare for deployment to Saudi Arabia in support of Operation Desert Shield

An airman calls the names of personnel waiting at a processing point as the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing prepares to deploy to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield

A member of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing waits for a briefing to begin as he prepares to deploy with his unit to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield

An airman listens to a briefing prior to her unit's deployment to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield

Members of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing listen to a briefing as they prepare to deploy to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD

Base: Raf Lakenheath

State: East Anglia

Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)

Scene Camera Operator: Nolan, David/STAFF SGT.

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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11/01/1991
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The U.S. National Archives
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label_outline Explore East Anglia, Tactical Fighter Wing, Tactical Fighter

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A NATO E-3A Sentry airborne warning and control system aircraft from NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen, West Germany, prepares to refuel from a KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft during a training mission. The plane is one of eighteen such aircraft providing surveillance for member nations as directed by NATO's Airborne Early Warning Force commander

Paratroopers from D Battery, 319th Field Artillery, land at the drop zone during NATO Exercise ARDENT GROUND '87. Members of the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force from Belgium, the Netherlands, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom and the United States are participating in the live artillery/air exercise being staged on Salisbury Plain Training Area in Wiltshire

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