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Balloons - Helium Plants - Development of Helium work carried on under direction of the Bureau of Mines. Plant #1. Carbon Dioxide Removal Plant. North Fort Worth, Texas

Balloons - Helium Plants - Development of Helium work carried on under...

Balloons - Helium Plants Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Balloons - Helium Plants - Development of helium under the direction of the Bureau of Mines. Barracks, Plants 1 & 2, North Fort Worth, Texas

Balloons - Helium Plants - Development of helium under the direction o...

Balloons - Helium Plants Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Balloons - Helium Plants - Development of helium work carried on under the direction of the Bureau of Mines. Compressor Building, North Fort Worth, Texas

Balloons - Helium Plants - Development of helium work carried on under...

Balloons - Helium Plants Public domain photograph of a compressor engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Right side view of a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft dropping mines during a live fire demonstration, taking place during exercise Team Spirit '82

Right side view of a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft dropping mines durin...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '82 Base: Kom Nae Range Country: South Korea Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Roy Bagwell Release Status: Released to... More

A member of an explosive ordnance disposal team uses a metal detector to check for mines on the beach. U.S. Marines have been assigned to Lebanon as part of a multinational peacekeeping force after a confrontation between Lebanoni forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization

A member of an explosive ordnance disposal team uses a metal detector ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark Dietrich Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photo... More

A member of an explosive ordnance disposal team uses a metal detector to check for mines on the beach. U.S. Marines have been assigned to Lebanon as part of a multinational peacekeeping force after a confrontation between Lebanoni forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization

A member of an explosive ordnance disposal team uses a metal detector ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark Dietrich Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photo... More

Crewmen hoist a 900-pound buoy, or "pig", aboard the ocean minesweeper USS CONSTANT (MSO 427) during sweeping exercises. Attached to the pig is a minesweeping cable fitted with armed cutters for freeing moored mines. The ship is assigned to the Naval Reserve Force (NRF)

Crewmen hoist a 900-pound buoy, or "pig", aboard the ocean minesweeper...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Constant (MSO 427) Country: Gulf Of Alaska Scene Camera Operator: JO2 Lance Johnson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Serv... More

Two Marines hold mines used for training during a field exercise

Two Marines hold mines used for training during a field exercise

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status... More

Mineman SEAMAN (SN) John Brandinstine bands two Mark 52 mines to a crate so they may be moved. Brandinstine is assigned to Mobile Mine Assembly Group Unit 5

Mineman SEAMAN (SN) John Brandinstine bands two Mark 52 mines to a cra...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naval Air Station, Sigonella State: Sicily Country: Italy (ITA) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Landenberger, USN Release Status: Released to Public ... More

A partial view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72) as it lies tied up at a deperming pier along the Elizabeth River prior to its shakedown cruise. Deperming reduces a ship's permanent magnetism, thus helping to protect it from magnetic mines and torpedoes

A partial view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LIN...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Gary Ward Release Status: Released to Public Com... More

A Navy trainer shares a playful moment with his charge, a sea lion specially trained to participate in the Navy's fleet-deployed unit, the Mark 5 Marine Mammal System. Sea lions in the unit are used by Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Units 3 and 4 to locate and mark underwater practice mines for recovery

A Navy trainer shares a playful moment with his charge, a sea lion spe...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Key West State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 (Ac) Scott M. Allen Release Status: Released to ... More

Aviation Machinist's Mate 2nd Class Marty Stickans records information from a sonar display screen in a Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter during operations off the coast of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The helicopter is towing the sonar device of an AGS-14 minehunting system which is being used to locate inert mines planted by U.S. forces as part of a minehunting exercise during Operation Desert Shield

Aviation Machinist's Mate 2nd Class Marty Stickans records information...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Joe Gawlowicz Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military ... More

LT. Tim Bitzer, copilot of a Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter, monitors controls in the cockpit during operations off the coast of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The helicopter is towing the sonar device of an AGS-14 minehunting system which is being used to locate inert mines planted by U.S. forces as part of a minehunting exercise during Operation Desert Shield

LT. Tim Bitzer, copilot of a Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Joe Gawlowicz Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military ... More

Aviation Machinist's Mate/AIRMAN J. Gudino monitors the sonar device trailing from a Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter during operations off the coast of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The unit is using the AQS-14 minehunting system to locate inert mines planted by U.S. forces as part of a minehunting exercise during Operation Desert Shield

Aviation Machinist's Mate/AIRMAN J. Gudino monitors the sonar device t...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Joe Gawlowicz Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military ... More

Hull Technician 1ST Class Jeff Simons, left, a member of a U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team, examines a device with members of an Australian EOD unit. U.S. and coalition EOD units are clearing mines and other ordnance from Kuwait's harbors following Operation Desert Storm

Hull Technician 1ST Class Jeff Simons, left, a member of a U.S. Navy e...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait(KWT) Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Lee Bosco Release Status: Released to Public... More

A team of explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) divers sets out to search for mines and unexploded ordnance as part of the multinational effort to re-open the city's port facility following Operation Desert Storm

A team of explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) divers sets out to search ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Joe Gawlowicz Release Status: Released to P... More

An aerial view of the harbor after mines, planted by Iraqi forces during their occupation of Kuwait, were removed by explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) diving teams. U.S., Australian, and British team members joined in a multinational effort to make the harbor safe for reopening. Oil slicks, also a product of the Iraqi occupation, can be seen in the water

An aerial view of the harbor after mines, planted by Iraqi forces duri...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD/STORM Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Camera Operator: Cw02 Ed Bailey Release Status: Released ... More

A burned-out tug boat lies tied up near the cement carrier HILALCEMENT I after the re-opening of the city's port facility following a multinational effort to clear the mines laid by Iraqi forces during their occupation of Kuwait

A burned-out tug boat lies tied up near the cement carrier HILALCEMENT...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait(KWT) Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Joe Gawlowicz Release Status: Released to Pu... More

A U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team member rinses his gear in clean water after diving in the oil-polluted water of the harbor to search for Iraqi mines. Australian and British EOD teams are also taking part in the effort to clear the area of ordnance left by Iraqi forces who were ousted from the country by U.S. and allied forces during Operation Desert Storm

A U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team member rinses his g...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Camera Operator: Cw02 Ed Bailey Release Status: Released to Pub... More

A view of a box of Valmara 69 anti-personnel bounding mines left behind in a private home after the retreat of Iraqi forces from Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm.

A view of a box of Valmara 69 anti-personnel bounding mines left behin...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Kuwait City Country: Kuwait(KWT) Scene Camera Operator: MASTER SGT. Kit Thompson Release Status: Released... More

Dignitaries meet in the wardroom aboard the command ship USS LA SALLE (AGF-3) prior to a ceremony marking the re-opening of Ash Shuaybah's port facility after a multinational effort to clear the mines laid by Iraqi forces during their occupation of Kuwait. Among those at the table are Edward Gnehm, left, U.S. ambassador to Kuwait; Rear Adm. Raynor A.K. Taylor, second from left, commander, U.S. Navy Middle East Force; and Kuwaiti ports chief CAPT. Abdel-Rahman Naibari, second from right

Dignitaries meet in the wardroom aboard the command ship USS LA SALLE ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Camera Operator: Cw02 Ed Bailey Release Status: Released to Pub... More

Rear Adm. Raynor A.K. Taylor, commander, Middle East Force, conducts a news conference prior to a ceremony marking the re-opening of Ash Shuaybah's port facility during Operation Desert Storm. The port is being reopened after a multinational effort to clear the mines laid by Iraqi forces during their occupation of Kuwait

Rear Adm. Raynor A.K. Taylor, commander, Middle East Force, conducts a...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Camera Operator: JO2 Pete Hatzakos Release Status: Released to ... More

As the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force coastal minehunter-sweeper SAKUSHIMA (MSC-671) arrives in the background, crewmen aboard the minesweeper support ship HAYASE (MST-462) prepare to put one of the ship's boats in the water. Three Japanese minesweepers and two support ships are stopping in the Philippines while en route to Kuwait to assist in the multinational effort to clear Iraqi mines from the Persian Gulf following Operation Desert Storm

As the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force coastal minehunter-sweeper...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Naval Station, Subic Bay State: Luzon Country: Philippines (PHL) Scene Camera Operator: PHC Chet King Re... More

US Navy PETTY Officer 1ST Class Bill Vandiver, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 2, probes for land mines during the exercise.(Exact date unknown)

US Navy PETTY Officer 1ST Class Bill Vandiver, Explosive Ordnance Disp...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: VALIANT THUNDER '95 Base: Warren Grove Range State: New Jersey (NJ) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Ope... More

A B-52H of the 20th Bomb Squadron (Buccaneers), 2nd Bomb Wing, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana after being refueled on 26 Apr 96 during a 22 hour non-stop round trip mission that started on 25 Apr 96. The KC-135R tanker is from the 100th Aerial Refueling Wing, Royal Air Force Mildenhall. The B-52H took on 120,000 pounds of fuel from two KC-135Rs over the North Sea after dropping eight MK52 mines as part of Exercise Blue Harbor

A B-52H of the 20th Bomb Squadron (Buccaneers), 2nd Bomb Wing, Barksda...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: BLUE HARBOR Base: Raf Mildenhall Country: Great Britain / England (GBR) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT. Brad Fallin Release Sta... More

A close up view weapons and explosives confiscated by US Army Soldiers from C Company Task Force 1-26, Camp Dobol, Bosnia-Herzegovina, during house to house searches in the town of Hajvazi, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Shown here is a bag containing 20 pounds of C-4 explosives with various hand grenades and anti-personnel mines

A close up view weapons and explosives confiscated by US Army Soldiers...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Hajevazi Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SGT Edward Cranick Release Stat... More

Marine GUNNERY Sergeant Eddie Fortson (standing) briefs Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (NMCB-133) Seabees on the hazards of possible land mines in the Bosnia area that the detachment will be assigned to as part of Operation Joint Endeavor

Marine GUNNERY Sergeant Eddie Fortson (standing) briefs Naval Mobile C...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Camp Mitchell State: Rota Country: Spain (ESP) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Douglas F. Mooney Release St... More

20mm ammunition, anti-tank mines anti-personnel mines and mortar rounds are part of the unexploded ordnance, to be detonated in a bunker outside the town of Celici, Bosnia-Herzegovina. US Army Explosive Ordnance Specialists (EOD) from 9TH Engineers will detonated the unexploded ordnance

20mm ammunition, anti-tank mines anti-personnel mines and mortar round...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Celici Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SGT Edward Cranick Release Status... More

PMA-3 anti-personnel mines prior to destruction during the Cooperative Blast mission. These are mines are designed to maim instead of kill. By disabling , two people are removed from the battlefield: the injured soldier, and someone carrying the soldier. These particular mines were removed from a Serbian mine field by Muslim soldiers. Destruction will take place near Camp Bedrock, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Operation JOINT GUARD, 11 March 1997

PMA-3 anti-personnel mines prior to destruction during the Cooperative...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARD Base: Camp Bedrock Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SPC Dwight Chaney, USA Release... More

Marine Barracks Minefield Maintenance personnel unload deactivated anti tank mines for demolition. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is clearing it's minefields of outdated mines in accordance with President William Jefferson Clinton's directive

Marine Barracks Minefield Maintenance personnel unload deactivated ant...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Ronald L. Heppner, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined M... More

US Air Force AIRMAN First Class Jake McCloskey, 99th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal flight, sweeps for mines during a training exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. This image was used in the July 1998 issue of AIRMAN Magazine

US Air Force AIRMAN First Class Jake McCloskey, 99th Civil Engineer Sq...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Nellis Air Force Base State: Nevada (NV) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Publ... More

An assortment of ammunition, fuses, grenades, mines and projectiles are placed on display as a multi-national group of military Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) experts train at the Udairi Range, located in Camp Doha, Kuwait. Because each service has its own requirements and mission types, joint training helps to expand different units' capabilities and familiarization with techniques

An assortment of ammunition, fuses, grenades, mines and projectiles ar...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Camp Doha Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Aaron Peterson, USN Release Status: Releas... More

A hand-sketched illustration by US Marine Corps (USMC) Sergeant (SGT) Jack M. Carrillo, showing USMC Combat Engineers assigned to Delta/Company, 1ST Tank Battalion, with an Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV7A1), prior to crossing the New Saddam Bridge in Baghdad, Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The road ahead was un-passable at the time due to anti-tank mines that were later cleared

A hand-sketched illustration by US Marine Corps (USMC) Sergeant (SGT) ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: SGT Jack M. Carrillo, USMC Release Status: Released t... More

US Navy (USN) Mineman Third Class (MN3) Justin Stordahl, Mobile Mine Assembly Unit Fifteen (MOMAU 15), Naval Air Station (NAS) Kingsville, Texas (TX), stands beside a stock pile of MK-6 inert training mines. These inert devices are used to simulate the physical characteristics of floating contact mine warfare systems. MOMAU 15 is currently in the process of relocating to Naval Station Ingleside, TX

US Navy (USN) Mineman Third Class (MN3) Justin Stordahl, Mobile Mine A...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naval Air Station, Kingsville State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PHC Chris Desmond, USN Release St... More

US Army (USA) Soldiers assigned to C Company, 1ST Engineers, 1ST Infantry Division Brigade Combat Team 1 (BCT-1), pose for a photograph with a box of anti-tank mines bearing the marking of the Jordanian Armed Forces, unearthed during a raid on a weapons cache, in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. USA Soldiers assigned to the 1ST Infantry Division are attached with the US Marine Corps (USMC) 1ST Marine Division, and are engaged in Security and Stabilization Operations (SASO) in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Army (USA) Soldiers assigned to C Company, 1ST Engineers, 1ST Infan...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PFC Brandon E. Loveless, USMC Rele... More

U.S. Navy (USN) Mineman Third Class Rene Gonzales prepares to place a magnetic coax cable in the sea to pulsate electricity, sweep and destroy mines during a mine countermeasure exercise aboard the USN Avenger Class Mine Countermeasures Ship USS ARDENT (MCM 12) on Dec. 3, 2006 on the Persian Gulf. The ARDENT is currently deployed in support of maritime security operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST Second Class Justin K. Thomas) (Released)

U.S. Navy (USN) Mineman Third Class Rene Gonzales prepares to place a ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Ardent (MCM 12) Scene Camera Operator: MC2 Justin K. Thomas, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

U.S. Marines from 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st

U.S. Marines from 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st

U.S. Marines from 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, conduct the first amphibious landing in an Assault Breacher Vehicle with a Modified Full Width Mine Plow prototype during Exercise Steel Kni... More

Gunnery Sgt. Kyle Wetter, an infantry unit leader with

Gunnery Sgt. Kyle Wetter, an infantry unit leader with

Gunnery Sgt. Kyle Wetter, an infantry unit leader with Bravo Company, left, and Staff Sgt. David Gaudette, platoon sergeant for Alpha Company, right, both with 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Di... More

Service members with the Royal Thai Armed Forces pose

Service members with the Royal Thai Armed Forces pose

Service members with the Royal Thai Armed Forces pose for a photo during Humanitarian Mine Action Thailand at Jarumanee Training Area, Ratchaburi Province, Kingdom of Thailand, Jan. 28, 2020. U.S. Marine Corps ... More

[Assignment: 48-DPA-01-13-09_SOI_K_Wheeler] Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides receiving visit at Main Interior from] Dennis Wheeler, [Chief Executive Officer, Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation of Idaho] [48-DPA-01-13-09_SOI_K_Wheeler_IOD_9633.JPG]

[Assignment: 48-DPA-01-13-09_SOI_K_Wheeler] Secretary Dirk Kempthorne ...

Complete assignment is listed as: Subject: Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides receiving visit at Main Interior from] Dennis Wheeler, [Chief Executive Officer, Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation of Idaho] Photo... More

Balloons - Helium Plants - Development of helium under the direction of the Bureau of Mines. Water Supply Plant. Plants 1 & 2, North Fort Worth, Texas

Balloons - Helium Plants - Development of helium under the direction o...

Balloons - Helium Plants Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aerial photographs - California - Calico Mines

Aerial photographs - California - Calico Mines

California - Calico Mines Public domain photograph - aerial photo, work of US government, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Armistice - Armistice - German officers designating location of mines in accordance with terms of Armistice. German officers pointing out the location of the mines they had layed along the roads and carious other places. They are seen in one of their own cars with a white flag on the machine

Armistice - Armistice - German officers designating location of mines ...

Photographer: Western Newspaper Union Armistice - Armistice Public domain photograph of World War One military equipment, vehicle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Locomotive [French Potash Mines], Public domain image

Locomotive [French Potash Mines], Public domain image

[French Potash Mines] - [FRA-3475 through FRA-3478 & FRA-3407 through FRA-3445]

A Kaman HH-43F Huskie (Pedro) lowers AIRMAN First Class (A1C) William Hart Pitsenbarger, USAF, Pararescue Crew Member, Detachment 6, 38th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron (ARRS) into a burning minefield at Bien-Hoa Air Base in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) for a helicopter extraction of a wounded Vietnamese Soldier. The soldier lost a foot when he stepped on a landmine. Nobody could figure out how to extract the wounded soldier without tripping the mines. A1C Pitsenbarger said, "No problem, just lower me down on the penetrator, Ill straddle the guy, pick him up, and then you can lift me up." Risky as everyone knew that the prop wash could also setoff the mines. A1C Pitsenbarger...

A Kaman HH-43F Huskie (Pedro) lowers AIRMAN First Class (A1C) William ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: A Kaman HH-43F Huskie (Pedro) lowers AIRMAN First Class (A1C) William Hart Pitsenbarger, USAF, Pararescue Crew Member, Detachmen... More

Medics treat the blown of foot of an Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldier immediately after he was extracted from a burning minefield at Bien-Hoa Air Base in the Republic of Vietnam (RVM)

Medics treat the blown of foot of an Army of the Republic of Vietnam (...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: Medics treat the blown of foot of an Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldier immediately after he was extracted from a bu... More

Marines show two NROTC students how to handle blasting caps and detonators for mines

Marines show two NROTC students how to handle blasting caps and detona...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Marine Corps Dev&Ec, Quantico State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: LCPL Sarah Randall Release Sta... More

Crewmen handle electrical cables, or "mag-tail," during sweeping exercises aboard the ocean minesweeper USS CONSTANT (MSO 427). The cables, used to simulate the magnetic pull of a vessel, are towed behind the ship to attract magnetic mines. The ship is assigned to the Naval Reserve Force (NRF)

Crewmen handle electrical cables, or "mag-tail," during sweeping exerc...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Constant (MSO 427) Country: Gulf Of Alaska Scene Camera Operator: JO2 Lance Johnson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Serv... More

Members of Company A, 76th Division (Reserve), bury anti-tank/personnel mines in a field during II Bravo training

Members of Company A, 76th Division (Reserve), bury anti-tank/personne...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort Devens State: Massachusetts (MA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Chris Leinenwever Release Status: Released ... More

A tin can on the bottom of the gulf is recorded by the video camera on a "SCORPI" remote piloted vehicle, as it scans the floor for mines during Operation INTENSE LOOK

A tin can on the bottom of the gulf is recorded by the video camera on...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: INTENSE LOOK Country: Gulf Of Suez Scene Camera Operator: PHCM C. Pedrick Release Status: Released to Public Combined Militar... More

U.S. Air Force personnel prepare Mark 52 air-delivered underwater mines for loading aboard a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft during exercise Team Spirit '86

U.S. Air Force personnel prepare Mark 52 air-delivered underwater mine...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '86 Base: Andersen Air Base State: Guam (GU) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unkn... More

Korean sailors deploy Mark 6 moored mines from a ship off the coast of South Korea during Exercise TEAM SPIRIT '86

Korean sailors deploy Mark 6 moored mines from a ship off the coast of...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '86 Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined M... More

Aviation Technician 3rd Class Tom Schmitt checks the rigging of the AQS-14 minehunting system as its sonar device is towed by a Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter during operations off the coast of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The system is being used to locate inert mines planted by U.S. forces as part of a minehunting exercise during Operation Desert Shield

Aviation Technician 3rd Class Tom Schmitt checks the rigging of the AQ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Joe Gawlowicz Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military ... More

A member of a U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team checks his team's diving gear for oil residue after it was cleaned. U.S. and coalition EOD units are clearing mines and other ordnance from Kuwait's harbors following Operation Desert Storm

A member of a U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team checks ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait(KWT) Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Lee Bosco Release Status: Released to Public... More

U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team members check their gear before diving into the oil-polluted water to search for Iraqi mines. Australian and British EOD teams are also taking part in the effort to clear the area of ordnance left by Iraqi forces who were ousted from the country by U.S. and allied forces during Operation Desert Storm

U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team members check their g...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Camera Operator: Cw02 Ed Bailey Release Status: Released to Pub... More

Members of an Australian explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) diving team board an inflatable boat as they prepare to search for mines planted in the harbor by Iraqi forces during their occupation of Kuwait. The Australian divers are joining British and U.S. EOD team members in a multinational effort to make the harbor safe for reopening

Members of an Australian explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) diving team...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD/STORM Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Camera Operator: Cw02 Ed Bailey Release Status: Released ... More

Rear Adm. Raynor A.K. Taylor, commander, U.S. Navy Middle East Force, listens as Edward Gnehm, U.S. ambassador to Kuwait, speaks to guests aboard the command ship USS LA SALLE (AGF-3) during a ceremony marking the re-opening of Ash Shuaybah's port facility after a multinational effort to clear the mines laid by Iraqi forces during their occupation of Kuwait. Kuwaiti ports chief CAPT. Abdel-Rahman Naibari is seated at center

Rear Adm. Raynor A.K. Taylor, commander, U.S. Navy Middle East Force, ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Camera Operator: Cw02 Ed Bailey Release Status: Released to Pub... More

Crew members look out over the harbor from the bridge wing of the miscellaneous flagship USS LA SALLE (AGF-3). The harbor, which has just been reopened, was cleared of mines by a multinational explosives ordnance disposal team following Iraqi withdrawal from the area during Operation Desert Storm

Crew members look out over the harbor from the bridge wing of the misc...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Camera Operator: JO2 Pete Hatzakos Release Status: Released to P... More

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force coastal minehunter/sweeper AWASHMA (MSC-670), left, pulls up to the pier behind the minesweeper support ship HAYASE (MST-462). Three Japanese minesweepers and two support ships are stopping in the Philippines while en route to Kuwait to assist in the multinational effort to clear Iraqi mines from the Persian Gulf following Operation Desert Storm

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force coastal minehunter/sweeper AW...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Naval Station, Subic Bay State: Luzon Country: Philippines (PHL) Scene Camera Operator: PHC Chet King Re... More

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force coastal minehunter/sweeper SAKUSHIMA (MSC-671), background, station. Three Japanese minesweepers and two support ships are stopping in the Philippines while en route to Kuwait to assist in the multinational effort to clear Iraqi mines from the Persian Gulf following Operation Desert Storm

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force coastal minehunter/sweeper SA...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Naval Station, Subic Bay State: Luzon Country: Philippines (PHL) Scene Camera Operator: PHC Chet King Re... More

A US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team 3 member sets up to demonstrate how to locate and safely disarm a land mine. It is part of Eager Express 92, the training of Kuwaiti Navy EOD personnel to help clear away abandoned mines and unexploded ordnance after the Persian Gulf War

A US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team 3 member sets up to demonst...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: Eager Express 92 Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Dewayne Smith Release Status: Released to Public Combined M... More

Turquoise Trail - Madrid Coal Mines

Turquoise Trail - Madrid Coal Mines

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Madrid, New Mexico is the only known spot in the United States where veins of both bituminous (soft) and anthracite (hard) coal can be f... More

Lariat Loop Scenic and Historic Byway - School of Mines Geology Museum

Lariat Loop Scenic and Historic Byway - School of Mines Geology Museum

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: The School of Mines Geology Museum stands in the sun while the Lariat Loop Scenic Byway climbs up Lookout Mountain in the distance. Loc... More

An explosive ordnance disposal technician from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 6, Charleston, SC, uses a minesweeper to search for land mines on a road during the exercise.(Exact date unknown)

An explosive ordnance disposal technician from Explosive Ordnance Disp...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: VALIANT THUNDER '95 Base: Mcguire Air Force Base State: New Jersey (NJ) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera... More

An overhead aerial view of the Navy's deperming station near Norfolk. The guided missile destroyer USS RAMAGE (DDG-61) is inside the station being depermed. This is a process to neutralize the magnetic field put out by a metal warship to eliminate the danger of magnetic influence mines

An overhead aerial view of the Navy's deperming station near Norfolk. ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Elizabeth River, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Robert J. Sitar Release Status: Rel... More

View of the Marine Corps war dog cemetery built in memory of the twenty-five combat trained dogs that lost their lives in the bitter fighting for the liberation of Guam. The dogs acted as sentries, messengers, and scouts along with searching for booby traps and anti-personnel mines. Twenty-four of the animals are buried here

View of the Marine Corps war dog cemetery built in memory of the twent...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: State: Guam Country: Northern Mariana Islands (MNP) Scene Camera Operator: Dawn C. Montgomery Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Serv... More

An audience of soldiers and media line the street in the afternoon of the 21st of April, 1996, in the small town of Visoko, Bosnia, to hear Lieutenant Colonel Weigold, a German Army Engineer, speak to them concerning the opening of the Visoko Bridge. The Visoko Bridge was rebuilt by German and Romanian Army Engineers during the months of March and April, 1996. Before the rebuilding of the bridge, the surrounding area had to be cleared of mines that had been laid after its destruction. The old Visoko bridge was destroyed in the beginning of the confrontations between Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Serbs

An audience of soldiers and media line the street in the afternoon of ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Visoko Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SPC Jean-Marc Schaible Release St... More

A Bulgarian Army Soldier probes for mines near a fellow Soldier after the explosion of a simulated mine during Situational Training Exercise-6 (STX-6) held at Camp Lejeune, NC during Operation COOPERATIVE OSPREY 96

A Bulgarian Army Soldier probes for mines near a fellow Soldier after ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: COOPERATIVE OSPREY '96 Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (US... More

Two US Army 74th Assault Floating Company and 502nd Assault Floating Bridge Company soldiers use a FBM Marine CSB Bridge Erection Boat to help deploy an underwater mine boom designed to prevent floating mines and other demolition devices from destroying the floating bridge they are building across the Sava River between Orasje, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Zupanja, Croatia. This floating bridge will be used by IFOR troops crossing the Sava River as they re-deploy from Bosnia during in Operation Joint Endeavor. Operation Joint Endeavor 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...

Two US Army 74th Assault Floating Company and 502nd Assault Floating B...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: Two US Army 74th Assault Floating Company and 502nd Assault Floating Bridge Company soldiers use a FBM Marine CSB Bridge Erecti... More

Two US Army 74th Assault Floating Company and 502nd Assault Floating Bridge Company soldiers use a FBM Marine CSB Bridge Erection Boat to help deploy an underwater mine boom designed to prevent floating mines and other demolition devices from destroying the floating bridge they are building across the Sava River between Orasje, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Zupanja, Croatia. This floating bridge will be used by IFOR troops crossing the Sava River as they re-deploy from Bosnia during in Operation Joint Endeavor. Operation Joint Endeavor 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...

Two US Army 74th Assault Floating Company and 502nd Assault Floating B...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: Two US Army 74th Assault Floating Company and 502nd Assault Floating Bridge Company soldiers use a FBM Marine CSB Bridge Erecti... More

Shown is the runway at Roberts International Airport, located outside Monrovia, Liberia. The runway has uneven concrete patchwork that was laid on the runway after government ficials tore out the original portion, because it was feared the runway was mined with land mines. The runway is two miles long and is being used by United States Air Force C-130E Hercules aircraft from the 86th Air Wing out Ramstein Air Base, Germany, for Operation ASSURED LIFT. ASSURED LIFT is a Joint Task Force (JTF) operation to provide airlift and other logistical support to West African states that are deploying more than 600 troops to Liberia as part the region's ongoing peacekeeping mission. Most...

Shown is the runway at Roberts International Airport, located outside ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: Shown is the runway at Roberts International Airport, located outside of Monrovia, Liberia. The runway has uneven concrete patch... More

US Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC). Marines from 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Combat Engineering Battalion load a live Line Charge rocket onto its launch rail mounted on top of a 5-ton truck. When fired, the rocket will layout 1,700 pounds of C-4 and on detonating, its concussion will in-turn detonate hidden mines

US Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC). Marines from 2nd Pl...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Mcagcc, Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: LCPL E. J. Young Release Status: ... More

US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 2 (EODMU-2) members Machinist's Mate 2nd Albert Moore III (left) and CHIEF GUNNER's Mate Brian Pearson, place leftover 4th of July fireworks with mines that are to be destroyed. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is clearing it's minefields of outdated mines in accordance with President William Jefferson Clinton's directive

US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 2 (EODMU-2) members Ma...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Ronald L. Heppner, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined M... More

A Coalition Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team inspects ocean mines hidden inside oil barrels on the deck of an Iraqi shipping barge, in the early hours of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A Coalition Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team inspects ocean...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Richard Moore, Usn Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mili... More

US Navy (USN) Hull Technician Second Class (HT2) William Schofer, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 6 (EODMU-6), Detachment 10, recovers buried ordnance from a mud hole at the sight of an abandoned building, located in Baghdad, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The ordnance cache consists of 340 anti-personnel mines and more than 100 mortars

US Navy (USN) Hull Technician Second Class (HT2) William Schofer, assi...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQ FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Bart A. Bauer, USN Release Status: Released to Pub... More

US Navy (USN) Hull Technician Second Class (HT2) William Schofer, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 6 (EODMU-6), Detachment 10, recovers buried ordnance at the sight of an abandoned building, located in Baghdad, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The ordnance cache consists of 340 anti-personnel mines and more than 100 mortars

US Navy (USN) Hull Technician Second Class (HT2) William Schofer, assi...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQ FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Bart A. Bauer, USN Release Status: Released to Pub... More

Engineer Soldiers of the Calumet, Mich., based Army

Engineer Soldiers of the Calumet, Mich., based Army

Engineer Soldiers of the Calumet, Mich., based Army National Guard 1431st Engineer Company (Sapper) react to small arms fire during route clearance lanes training near their armory on Sept. 27, 2014. (Army Nati... More

An Iraqi soldier with 7th Engineers, 7th Division,

An Iraqi soldier with 7th Engineers, 7th Division,

An Iraqi soldier with 7th Engineers, 7th Division, Iraqi army, uses a metal detector to search for mines near Port of Entry Waleed on Sept. 24, 2008. The soldiers are putting up a barbed wire fence with warning... More

[Assignment: 48-DPA-01-13-09_SOI_K_Wheeler] Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides receiving visit at Main Interior from] Dennis Wheeler, [Chief Executive Officer, Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation of Idaho] [48-DPA-01-13-09_SOI_K_Wheeler_IOD_9635.JPG]

[Assignment: 48-DPA-01-13-09_SOI_K_Wheeler] Secretary Dirk Kempthorne ...

Complete assignment is listed as: Subject: Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides receiving visit at Main Interior from] Dennis Wheeler, [Chief Executive Officer, Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation of Idaho] Photo... More

Balloons - Helium Plants - Development of helium work carried on under direction of the Bureau of Mines. Still columns, Plant No. 3, located three miles north of Petrolia, Texas

Balloons - Helium Plants - Development of helium work carried on under...

Balloons - Helium Plants Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

President Gerald R. Ford and Canadian Minister of Energy, Mines, and Resources Donald S. Macdonald With Others on the Observation Deck at Libby Dam in Libby, Montana

President Gerald R. Ford and Canadian Minister of Energy, Mines, and R...

Gerald R. Ford White House Photographs Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Royal Thai navy personnel transfer recovered mines to the support ship HTMS Thalang during the mine recovery phase of Exercise Cobra Gold '82

Royal Thai navy personnel transfer recovered mines to the support ship...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD '82 Base: The-Pha Beach Country: Thailand (THA) Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Feliman Barbante Jr. Release Status: R... More

Hull Maintenance Technician 1ST Class (HT1) Mike Scott tests a hand-held sonar before searching for actuation mines during Exercise Cobra Gold '82

Hull Maintenance Technician 1ST Class (HT1) Mike Scott tests a hand-he...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD '82 Base: The-Pha Beach Country: Thailand (THA) Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Feliman Barbante Jr. Release Status: R... More

LCPL Jeff Bucci, 2nd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Platoon, uses a metal detector to check for mines on the beach. Bucci is one of the Marines assigned to Lebanon as part of a multinational peacekeeping force after a confrontation between Lebanoni forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization

LCPL Jeff Bucci, 2nd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Platoon, uses a metal...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark Dietrich Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photo... More

Members of Company A, 76th Division (Reserve), arm anti-tank/personnel mines during II Bravo training

Members of Company A, 76th Division (Reserve), arm anti-tank/personnel...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort Devens State: Massachusetts (MA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Chris Leinenwever Release Status: Released ... More

Contact mines partially covered by a tarpaulin on the deck of the captured Iranian mine-laying ship TRAN AJR

Contact mines partially covered by a tarpaulin on the deck of the capt...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Cleveland Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Crewmen watch for mines from the bow of the guided missile frigate USS FORD (FFG-54) while participating in a reflagged tanker escort operation. The battleship USS MISSOURI (BB-63), the replenishment oiler USNS HASSAYAMPA (T-AO-145) and the destroyer USS LEFTWICH (DD-984) are conducting an underway replenishment ahead of the FORD

Crewmen watch for mines from the bow of the guided missile frigate USS...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Gulf Of Oman Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Elliott Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Crewmen standing on the flight deck of the Dock Landing Ship USS GERMANTOWN (LSD 42) haul on a line to bring a deperming coil aboard. The coils will be placed vertically along ships entire length and will, when energized, reduce the ship's permanent magnetism, thus helping protect the ship from magnetic mines and torpedoes

Crewmen standing on the flight deck of the Dock Landing Ship USS GERMA...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naval Submarine Base, San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Mike Flynn, USN Releas... More

Aviation Technician/AIRMAN D. Winger, navigator of a Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter, monitors instruments during operations off the coast of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The unit is using the AQS-14 minehunting system to locate inert mines planted by U.S. forces as part of a minehunting exercise during Operation Desert Shield

Aviation Technician/AIRMAN D. Winger, navigator of a Helicopter Mine C...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Joe Gawlowicz Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military ... More

A Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter takes off as others stand on the flight line in preparation for exercises in the Persian Gulf. The helicopters are towing sonar devices of the AGS-14 minehunting system while searching for inert mines planted by Allied forces for minesweeping exercises taking place during Operation Desert Shield

A Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) MH-53E Sea Drago...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU) Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Joe Gawlowicz Release Status: Released to Public Combine... More

An aerial view of the harbor after mines, planted by Iraqi forces during their occupation of Kuwait, were removed by explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) diving teams. U.S., Australian, and British team members joined in a multinational effort to make the harbor safe for reopening. Oil slicks, also a product of the Iraqi occupation, can be seen in the water

An aerial view of the harbor after mines, planted by Iraqi forces duri...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD/STORM Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Camera Operator: Cw02 Ed Bailey Release Status: Released ... More

Led by Rear Adm. (lower half) William W. Mathis, commander, Mine Warfare Command, and his wife, a group of U.S. Navy officers comes aboard the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper support ship HAYASE (MST-462) for a visit. Three Japanese minesweepers and two support ships are stopping in the Philippines while en route to Kuwait to assist in the multinational effort to clear Iraqi mines from the Persian Gulf following Operation Desert Storm

Led by Rear Adm. (lower half) William W. Mathis, commander, Mine Warfa...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Naval Station, Subic Bay State: Luzon Country: Philippines (PHL) Scene Camera Operator: PHC Chet King Re... More

Crewmen pull deperming coils across the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS WASP (LHD-1). The WASP is moored in a deperming crib on the Elizabeth River. The coils, when energized, will reduce the ship's permanent magnetism, thus helping to protect the ship from magnetic mines and torpedoes

Crewmen pull deperming coils across the flight deck of the amphibious ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 R.C. Witham Release Status: Released to Public C... More

A starboard view of the amphibious assault ship USS WASP (LHD-1) moored in a deperming crib on the Elizabeth River. Deperming coils have been laid across the deck. The coils, when energized, will reduce the ship's permanent magnetism, thus helping to protect the ship from magnetic mines and torpedoes

A starboard view of the amphibious assault ship USS WASP (LHD-1) moore...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH1(Sw) J.E. Westfall Release Status: Released to Pu... More

A US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team 3 member demonstrates the use of a metal detector to locate buried land mines as part of the operation. Kuwaiti Navy EOD personnel are being trained to help clear abandoned mines and unexploded ordnance left behind after the Persian Gulf War

A US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team 3 member demonstrates the u...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: Eager Express 92 Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Dewayne Smith Release Status: Released to Public Combined M... More

Rear Adm. Raynor A.K. Taylor, Commander US Naval Forces Central Command, explains one of the Iraqi mines recovered from the Persian Gulf to Adm. David E. Jeremiah, Vice Chairman of the JCS, on board the miscellaneous command ship USS La Salle (AGF-3). Other officials and foreign military personnel are also on the tour. Adm. Jeremiah is in the region to monitor Operation Southern Watch, the enforcement of a "No Fly Zone" for Iraqi aircraft south of the 32nd parallel

Rear Adm. Raynor A.K. Taylor, Commander US Naval Forces Central Comman...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Bahrain (BHR) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN April S. Hatton Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Live anti-personnel mines are a frequent sight along route Arizona, a road that leads to Tuzla AB, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Live anti-personnel mines are a frequent sight along route Arizona, a ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Dubrave Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SSG Brian Cumper Release Status:... More

Live anti-personnel mines are a frequent hazard along route Arizona, a road that leads to Tuzla AB, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Live anti-personnel mines are a frequent hazard along route Arizona, a...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Dubrave Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SSG Brian Cumper Release Status:... More

An M-1 Abrams Tank, equipped with a mine roller, searches for mines along route Osterich, located in the Zone of Separation (ZOS)

An M-1 Abrams Tank, equipped with a mine roller, searches for mines al...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SSG Brian Cumper Release Status: Released to Pu... More

In the afternoon of the 21st of April, 1996, in the small town of Visoko, two German Army Engineers inspect the Sixty Ton Maximum Load Capacity Bridge, now the Visoko Bridge, while crossing it during the opening. The Visoko Bridge was built by German and Romanian Army Engineers during the months of March and April, 1996. Before the rebuilding of the bridge, the surrounding area had to be cleared of mines that were laid after its destruction. The old Visoko bridge was destroyed in the beginning of the confrontations between Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Serbs

In the afternoon of the 21st of April, 1996, in the small town of Viso...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Visoko Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SPC Jean-Marc Schaible Release St... More

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