An Army engineer, foreground, drives a motor grader while a Seabee from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (NMCB-133) operates a self-propelled roller as they work on the runway at an Iraqi airfield. The airfield, which had been under construction prior to the start of the Persian Gulf war, is being repaired by coalition engineer units so relief supplies can be flown in for nearby Kurdish refugees as part of Operation Provide Comfort
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT
Base: Sirsenk
Country: Iraq(IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Dimattio
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/05/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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