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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD

Country: Saudi Arabia(SAU)

Scene Camera Operator: TECH. SGT. H. H. Deffner

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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01/12/1990
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