Iraqi subcontractors set bricks and mortar between steel or prefabricated concrete beams, at the annex to the Ibn Sina Army Hospital in the International Zone (IZ), in Baghdad, Iraq. This large rehabilitation project is planned, managed, and quality controlled by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Iraqi Site Managers. Taken 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: Jim Gordon, CIV
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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