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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: UNITAS XXII
Base: Paita
Country: Peru (PER)
Scene Camera Operator: SGT A.F. Potter
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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