Night vision light enhanced photography showing US Army (USA) Soldiers assigned to Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 108th New York Army National Guard (NYARNG), interrogating a suspected insurgent taken into custody during Operation Tiger Wolverine, near Balad Air Base (AB), Iraq. The purpose of the operation is to detain suspected anti-Iraqi forces that have been involved in attacks against coalition and Iraqi forces, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM
Base: Balad Air Base
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Steve Faulisi, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Iraq War aka Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, under the code-name "Operation Iraqi Freedom". 248,000 soldiers from the United States, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers and 194 Polish soldiers from Special Forces unit GROM sent to Kuwait for the invasion. The invasion force was also supported by Iraqi Kurdish militia troops, estimated to number upwards of 70,000.
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Date
25/08/2004
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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