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030326-N-9122P-002: USS Tarawa (LHA-1), March 2003

030326-N-9122P-002: USS Tarawa (LHA-1), March 2003. Airmen Leon Martinez III is mans an MK-38 machine gun aboard the amphibious assault ship in the Arabian Gulf, March 23, 2003. Tarawa is deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. Photographed by Journalist Seaman Apprentice David Perea. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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Caption: 030326-N-9122P-002: USS Tarawa (LHA-1), March 2003. Airmen Leon Martinez III is mans an MK-38 machine gun aboard the amphibious assault ship in the Arabian Gulf, March 23, 2003. Tarawa is deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. Photographed by Journalist Seaman Apprentice David Perea. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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