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Smoke billows from several burning oil storage tanks at the Al Basrah Refinery following a coalition air strike during Operation DESERT STORM. The photograph was taken from a Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84) F-14A Tomcat aircraft using the Tactical Air Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS)

Smoke billows from several burning oil storage tanks at the Al Basrah Refinery following a coalition air strike during Operation DESERT STORM. The photograph was taken from a Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84) F-14A Tomcat aircraft using the Tactical Air Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS)

An aerial view of Iraqi cargo ships south of the city of Umm Qasr, Iraq, during Operation Desert Storm. The photograph was taken from a Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84) F-14A Tomcat aircraft using the tactical air reconnaissance pod system (TARPS)

An overhead view of an Iraqi Scud missile site during Operation Desert Storm. The blackened earth at center marks the spot from which a missile was fired. The photograph was taken from a Fighter Squadron 32 (VF-32) F-14A Tomcat aircraft using the Tactical Air Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS)

An overhead view of the A1 Qaim superphosphate fertilizer plant, showing some of the damage caused by Allied bombing attacks during Operation Desert Storm. The photograph was taken from a Fighter Squadron 32 (VF-32) F-14A Tomcat aircraft using the tactical air reconnaissance pod system (TARPS)

An overhead view of Iraqi Scud missile storage bunkers, one of which is still burning, following a strike by A-7E Corsair aircraft from Attack Squadron 46 (VA-46) and Attack Squadron 72 (VA-72) during Operation Desert Storm. The photograph was taken from a Fighter Squadron 32 (VF-32) F-14A Tomcat aircraft using the Tactical Air Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS)

A Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84) F-14A Tomcat aircraft flies past several burning oil wells following Operation Desert Storm.

An overhead view of an Iraqi airfield during Operation Desert Storm, showing four destroyed aircraft and, at center, an intact aircraft at the end of a taxiway. The photograph was taken from a Fighter Squadron 32 (VF-32) F-14A Tomcat aircraft using the tactical air reconnaissance pod system (TARPS)

A Fighter Squadron 114 (VF-114) F-14 Tomcat aircraft flies over oil well fires still burning in the aftermath of Operation Desert Storm

Oil spreads into the Persian Gulf from an oil facility near Ras Al Qulayah, Kuwait, during Operation Desert Storm. The photograph was taken from a Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84) F-14A Tomcat aircraft using the tactical air reconnaissance pod system (TARPS). Exact Date Shot Unknown

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM

Country: Kuwait(KWT)

Scene Camera Operator: Unknown

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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01/02/1991
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label_outline Explore Air Reconnaissance Pod System, Tarps, F 14 A

A Vietnamese refugee mother poses for a photograph with her children aboard the petroleum tanker OVERSEAS VIVIAN (T-AOT-2006) as the ship arrives in port at Naval Base, Subic Bay. The commercial tanker, which is operating under a charter with the Navy's Military Sealift Command, is transporting 109 Vietnamese refugees to Naval Base, Subic Bay, following their recovery from a disabled boat in the South China Sea on April 20th. Exact Date Shot Unknown

A Fighter Squadron 211 (VF-211) F-14A Tomcat aircraft prepares to catch the arresting wire as it comes in for a landing on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) during flight operations aboard the vessel

U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter flies over one of the Great Pyramids near Cairo during BRIGHT STAR '83. Exact Date Shot Unknown

A Fighter Squadron 143 (VF-143) F-14A Tomcat aircraft is readied for launch from the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)

As a Fighter Squadron 41 (VF-41) F-14A Tomcat aircraft is launched from the No. 3 catapult aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72), the line attaching an aerial banner target to the aircraft is played out across the flight deck. The LINCOLN is at sea for its shakedown cruise

Flight deck crewmen conduct flight operations with an F-14 Tomcat aircraft aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN 68). The F-14 is in position to be catapulted from the carrier

NC-10B powerplants are positioned at the end of a line of A-6E Intruder and F-14A Tomcat aircraft during servicing of the aircraft prior to a mission

A left side view of three F-14A Tomcat aircraft from Fighter Squadron 142 (VF-142) in flight with their arresting hooks down. The aircraft are based aboard the Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)

Aircraft and maintenance personnel from the 39th and 40th Airlift Squadrons, Dyess AFB, TX, prepare to participate in the operation.(Exact date unknown)

A pair of F-14A "Tomcat" aircraft attached to the "Black Aces" of Fighter Squadron Four One (VF-41) operating from the USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65), air-to-air refuel with a United States Air Force KC135R Stratotanker

Air-to-air, side view of a 22nd Air Refueling Wing KC-10A Extender from March AFB, California preparing to refuel an in trail 60th Airlift Wing's C-5B Galaxy over the High Sierra mountains in northern California. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Flight deck crewmen walk in front of a P-16 shipboard firefighting and rescue truck as a catapult crew prepares to launch a Fighter Squadron 14 (VF-14) F-14A Tomcat aircraft from the aircraft lands on the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67)

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oil persian gulf facility oil facility ras qulayah ras al qulayah kuwait operation desert storm fighter squadron vf tomcat aircraft tomcat aircraft reconnaissance pod system air reconnaissance pod system tarps f 14 a tomcat f 14 a grumman aerospace corporation high resolution desert storm f 14 a tomcat aircraft exact date us national archives