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Maintenance team members construct a framework of aluminum planking to be used as a revetment on an airfield during Operation Desert Storm. When the hollow structure is filled with sand for stabilization, it protects aircraft from strafing, shell fragments and other such threats.

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Maintenance team members construct a framework of aluminum planking to be used as a revetment on an airfield during Operation Desert Storm. When the hollow structure is filled with sand for stabilization, it protects aircraft from strafing, shell fragments and other such threats.

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Summary

The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM

Country: Saudi Arabia(SAU)

Scene Camera Operator: TECH. SGT. Fernando Serna

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Date

07/02/1992

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Source

The U.S. National Archives

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