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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Lajes Field
State: Azores
Country: Portugal (PRT)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Robert W Valenca, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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27/07/2004
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