High-Altitude Photos of the Khamisiyah Complex The following DoD photos provide a bird's eye view of key facilities and areas at the Khamisiyah Ammunition Storage Point, where U.S. demolitions operations exposed as many as 20,000 Gulf War troops to deadly nerve agents. The "Pit" This aerial photograph of the Khamisiyah Ammunition Storage Complex in Southern Iraq, taken on March 1, 1991, shows the area known as the Pit, where Iraqi rockets containing sarin and cyclosarin nerve agents were demolished by the 37th Engineer Battalion, exposing thousands of U.S. troops to contamination. Bunker 73 This photo, taken on February 10, 1991, shows the "bunker 73" area, where more than 2,000 Iraqi rockets containing sarin and cyclosarin nerve agents were relocated at the outset of the air war. Iraqi officials informed UNSCOM inspectors in May, 1996, that approximately half of the 2,160 122mm rockets were moved to "the Pit" after some of them began to leak. The rockets were moved prior to the arrival of the 37th Engineer Battalion, which conducted demolition operations in the Pit that may have exposed as many as 20,000 U.S. troops to hazardous contamination. Demolished Bunker This photograph of the Khamisiyah Complex, also taken on February 10, 1991, shows a demolished bunker (lower left). Document: DoD Report on Demolitions at Khamisiyah Gulf War Chemical Incident Logs Missing