2953 x 2214 px | 25 x 18,7 cm | 9,8 x 7,4 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
27 janvier 2003
Lieu:
Persian Gulf
Informations supplémentaires:
The US Marines Boeing Vertol CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter is on the flight deck of the USS Nassau (LHA-4) (United States Navy General Purpose Amphibious Assault Ship), somewhere in the Persian Gulf. Known colloquially as the "Phrog", the Sea Knight was used in all US Marine operational environments between its introduction during the Vietnam War and its front line retirement in 2014. The USS Nassau was commissioned in 1979 and decommissioned in 2011. The 2003 invasion of Iraq lasted from 20th March to 1st May 2003 and signalled the start of the Iraq War, which was dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom by the United States (prior to 19th March, the mission in Iraq was called Operation Enduring Freedom, a carryover from the War in Afghanistan). The invasion consisted of 21 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and deposed the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein.
