Lt. Gen. Raimonds Graube and Defense Minister Raimonds Vejonis lay flowers on the Oskars Kalpaks monument during a ceremony March 6 in Riga, Latvia. The ceremony, which was attended by high-ranking defense officials and military personnel, commemorates the death of Oskars Kalpaks, the first commander of the 1st Latvian Independent Battalion, known as “Kalpaks Battalion.” Kalpaks Battalion stopped the Bolshevik invasion of Latvia. Kalpaks died in 1919. (Headquarters and Headquarters Company 157th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade photo by Sgt. Katie Eggers/Released)
| Date Taken: | 03.06.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 03.08.2015 07:08 |
| Photo ID: | 1802572 |
| VIRIN: | 150306-Z-ON199-011 |
| Resolution: | 4288x2848 |
| Size: | 6.67 MB |
| Location: | RIGA, LV |
| Web Views: | 15 |
| Downloads: | 1 |
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