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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: PHOENIX GAUNTLET
Base: Pointe Noire
Country: Congo (COG)
Scene Camera Operator: A1C Gregory L. Davis, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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