Archive photo of the day
Ready to fly to Iraq, 2003
Stars and Stripes
January 23, 2024
(Kent Harris/Stars and Stripes)
Aviano Air Base, Italy, March 26, 2003: Members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade move toward C-17 transport planes on the taxiway. The Vicenza-based troops parachuted into northern Iraq the same day as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Read the article on the mission here.