Iraq Operations

 

 

         
Specialist Joshua Knott, a tail gunner aboard an Army CH-47D Chinook helicopter, maintains a watchful eye during the aircraft's takeoff from Baghdad Air Base, Iraq, on Sunday, 20 July 2003.

 

             Specialist Joshua Knott, a tail gunner aboard an Army CH-47D Chinook helicopter, maintains a watchful eye during the aircraft's takeoff from Baghdad Air Base, Iraq, on Sunday, 20 July 2003.

 

 

         
A United States Army CH-47D Chinook helicopter door gunner keeps watch while flying over the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

 

             Above and below: A United States Army CH-47D Chinook helicopter door gunner keeps watch while flying over the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Monday, 15 September 2003. Today, as in many days past, one U.S. soldier was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack while on patrol in central Baghdad, according to U.S. military sources. This brought to 73 the total number of U.S. soldiers killed in hostile action in Iraq since Washington declared major combat over on May 1.

 

         
A United States Army CH-47D Chinook helicopter door gunner keeps watch while flying over the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

 

 

         
Two U.S. Army CH-47D Chinook helicopters pass an Iraqi fisherman as he works the Tigris River.

 

             18 September 2003: Two powerful U.S. Army CH-47D Chinook helicopters pass an Iraqi fisherman as he works the Tigris River near downtown Baghdad. Iraqi fishermen make their living on the river by catching shezboot and mazgouf fish and selling them for around 8,000 Iraqi dinars or $4, but there have been complaints of dwindling stocks and increasing river pollution since the war.

 

         

 

         
Iranian Chinook Found in Iraq.
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89-00139 in the Iraqi desert, September 2003.

 

             September 2003: While temporarily on assignment in Iraq, United States Army CH-47D Chinook Flight Engineer SGT Jeremy Whittaker, of F Company, 159th Aviation Regiment - "Big Windy", and an associate pose for the folks back home next to his helicopter 89-00139. Big Windy is normally stationed at Giebelstadt in the Federal Republic of Germany, but deployed to participate in the War on Terrorism.

 

 

         
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