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US Army (USA) Soldiers from Charlie Company (C CO), TAC 1ST Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment (1/17th Infantry), 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT), Ft. Wainwright, Alaska (AK), set up and prepare to fire 60mm illumination flares from the roof of an Iraqi Police station in Mosul, Iraq (IRQ). The illumination flares will brighten the city in hopes it will deny the terrorist cover of darkness and less likely to place Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Mosul
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Jeremy Lock, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
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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
04/07/2006
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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