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US Marines Corps (USMC) Marines with the 1ST Battalion, 7th Marines (1/7), Charlie Company, Twentynine Palms, California (CA), move through one of Saddam Husseins palaces in Baghdad as the Marines takeover the complex during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
US Marines Corps (USMC) Marines with the 1ST Battalion, 7th Marines (1/7), Charlie Company, Twentynine Palms, California (CA), move through one of Saddam Husseins palaces in Baghdad as the Marines takeover the complex during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
US Marines Corps (USMC) Marines from the 1ST Battalion, 7th Marines (1/7), Charlie Company, Twentynine Palms, California (CA), move over the grounds of one of Saddam Husseins palaces in Baghdad as they takeover the complex during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
US Marines Corps (USMC) Marines from the 1ST Battalion, 7th Marines (1/7), Charlie Company, Twentynine Palms, California (CA), move through the ground of one of Saddam Husseins palaces in Baghdad as they takeover the complex during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
US Marines Corps (USMC) Marines from the 1ST Battalion, 7th Marines (1/7), Charlie Company, Twentynine Palms, California (CA), move through the ground of one of Saddam Husseins palaces in Baghdad as they takeover the complex during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
US Marines Corps (USMC) Marines with the 1ST Battalion, 7th Marines (1/7), Charlie Company, Twentynine Palms, California (CA), move over the grounds of one of Saddam Husseins palaces in Baghdad as the Marines takeover the complex during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
US Marines Corps (USMC) Marines from the 1ST Battalion, 7th Marines (1/7), Charlie Company, Twentynine Palms, California (CA), move over the grounds of one of Saddam Husseins palaces in Baghdad as they takeover the complex during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
A US Marines Corps (USMC) Marine videographer with the 1ST Battalion, 7th Marines (1/7), Charlie Company, Twentynine Palms, California (CA), documents posters of Britany Spears inside one of the rooms of one of Saddam Husseins palaces in Baghdad as the Marines takeover the complex during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
A US Marines Corps (USMC) Marine with the 1ST Battalion, 7th Marines (1/7), Charlie Company, Twentynine Palms, California (CA), moves over the grounds of one of Saddam Husseins palaces in Baghdad as the Marines takeover the complex during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
US Marines Corps (USMC) Marines from the 1ST Battalion, 7th Marines (1/7), Charlie Company, Twentynine Palms, California (CA), are documented by a Marine videographer as they move over the grounds of one of Saddam Husseins palaces in Baghdad as they takeover the complex during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM
Base: Baghdad
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Major Command Shown: 7th Marines
Scene Camera Operator: LCPL Kevin C. Quihuis Jr, USMC
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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