Aerial view showing the right side of the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, after a car bomb exploded in from of the Embassy, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM
Base: Baghdad
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Robert R. Hargreaves, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Iraq War aka Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, under the code-name "Operation Iraqi Freedom". 248,000 soldiers from the United States, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers and 194 Polish soldiers from Special Forces unit GROM sent to Kuwait for the invasion. The invasion force was also supported by Iraqi Kurdish militia troops, estimated to number upwards of 70,000.
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aerial
aerial view
right side
jordanian
embassy
jordanian embassy
baghdad
iraq
car
bomb
car bomb
operation iraqi freedom
us air force
high resolution
iraqi freedom
us national archives
Date
10/08/2003
in collections
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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