US Army (USA) Soldiers assigned to 1ST Battalion, 505th and 1ST Battalion 504th, Parachute Infantry Regiments, 82nd Airborne Division, assemble around their convoy of heavily armed High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV), after arriving at a safe house at the town of Khowst, Afghanistan, to prepare for Operation Mountain Sweep. Operation Mountain Sweep is the largest US Offensive in Afghanistan since Operation Anaconda
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM
Base: Khowst
Country: Afghanistan (AFG)
Scene Camera Operator: SPC Patrick Tharpe, USA
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Tags
Date
19/08/2002
Source
The U.S. National Archives
Copyright info
No known copyright restrictions