A U.S. Army brigadier general, right, accompanies a group of Kurdish elders on a tour of the city to assure them that it is safe for their people to return to Zakhu and the refugee camp on its outskirts. The camp was set up as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid the thousands of Kurds who left their homes to flee from Iraqi government forces following the fighting that broke out in that country after Operation Desert Storm
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM
Base: Zakhu
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 James R. Klein
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
28/04/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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