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Smoke and flames billow up from a bomb dropped during exercise Bright Star '82

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Subject Operation/Series: BRIGHT STAR '82

Country: Egypt (EGY)

Scene Camera Operator: Unknown

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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01/11/1981
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