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Central Command Area of Responsibility (Apr. 15, 2003) Ð A B-52 Stratofortress assigned to the 40th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, loaded with 12 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) heads toward Iraq with it's new mission directive.  The bomber's mission is to provide close air support for coalition troops stabilizing the country of Iraq.  Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraqi's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein.  U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Richard Freeland.  (RELEASED)

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Service Branch
US Air Force
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B-52
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