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Thick smoke pours out of the barrel, the open tureet hatches, the open engine cowling cover of a confiscated Serbian Army T-55 Main Battle Tank (MBT), parked in the field artillery area of Camp Dobol, Bosnia-Herzegovina, after a US Army TF 1-26 EOD unit rigged Thermite grenades in the tank's barrel, turret, engine, and transmission and then detonated them simultaneously in order to destroy it during Operation Joint Guard. Operation Joint Guard is part of Operation Joint Endeavor, which is a peacekeeping effort by a multinational Implementation Force (IFOR), comprised of NATO and non-NATO military forces, deployed to Bosnia in support of the Dayton Peace Accords
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARDJOINT ENDEAVOR
Base: Camp Dobal
Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)
Scene Camera Operator: SGT Angel Clemons
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
16/03/1997
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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