Steven Dutch, Professor Emeritus, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
0330 on March 1, 1991. That's not approaching dawn lighting the sky.
The guys in the somewhat irregular uniforms below are Kuwaiti volunteers and interpreters.
First meetings with the Kuwaitis
The biggest guy in the unit, SSG Don Hanson, links up with some of the smallest people in Kuwait!
It's not hard to figure this out. Someone was sniping from a corner window and got taken out by a tank. I passed this building dozens of times but, to conserve film (I sure wish I had my digital camera back then!) only took one picture. I didn't find out until after I got back that it was blurred.
The Kuwaitis wasted no time in eradicating reminders of Saddam Hussein.
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