Photograph 12 of 15
Foreign Armor I
Landscape color photograph with a relatively tall frame. A line of tanks crosses the middle distance beyond rutted ground, with industrial stacks on the right horizon.
Describe the photograph
Full visual description
Tanks and wheeled armored vehicles sit at different angles across the middle distance, their pale bodies forming a broken horizontal line. The open foreground occupies much of the lower half of the frame. Curving vehicle tracks and ruts cross its reddish-tan surface and lead laterally through the armored vehicles.
The horizon remains low beneath a large, washed-out sky. Four slender smokestacks rise on the right above a low industrial building. Distant vehicle edges and structures are soft, and individual people cannot be resolved.
Look closer
More visible detail
Curving vehicle tracks sweep across the otherwise open foreground and carry the eye laterally through armored vehicles set at different angles. The closer related photograph, Foreign Armor II, reveals that the rows continue much farther and more densely into the compound than this wide view first suggests.
What was happening?
Historical context
Rows of tanks and wheeled armored vehicles extend across a compound west of Musayyib.
What does Kenny remember?
From Kenny
I remember the scale more than any individual vehicle. The armor field stretched far beyond the loose line visible here.
Who made the photograph?
About this photograph
Photograph by Kenny Bass.
Photograph 12 of 15.
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Related photograph
Foreign Armor II / Armor Field
Landscape color photograph. Rows of armored vehicles recede diagonally from the near right and lower edge toward trees on the distant left.
Pale tanks and wheeled armored vehicles overlap in deep rows across a dusty compound. Some are partly cut by the lower and right edges, making the field appear to continue beyond the frame. A dark line of trees meets a pale sky along the horizon.
A near six-wheeled armored vehicle is consistent with an EE-9 Cascavel, and several tracked tanks are consistent with the T-54/T-55/Type 59 family. Other vehicle types remain unresolved.
The closer viewpoint reveals that the armor field is substantially deeper and denser than Foreign Armor I alone suggests.
Foreign Armor I shows the same field from farther away, with the power plant's smokestacks visible across the Euphrates.
Photograph by Kenny Bass.
How does it connect?
Connections
- Open the related Foreign Armor II photograph for a closer view of the same field.
- The industrial stacks on the right horizon belong to Al-Mussaib Thermal Power Plant across the Euphrates.
What remains uncertain?
What the photograph cannot settle
The paired views support several family-level identifications, but not an exact count or model for every vehicle.