During the opening nights of Desert Storm in 1991, United States Air Force F-15 fighters were tasked with sweeping Iraqi ...
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After the initial confrontation with Coalition air power in Operation Desert Storm, Saddam Hussein realized that Iraqi Air Force couldn't survive it for very long. He devised a desperate plan to ...
WASHINGTON — As retired Gen. Rhonda Cornum stood in the blazing sun Thursday morning, looking out over hundreds of veterans, their family members, international ambassadors and others, she recalled ...
Over the six-week campaign, F-15Cs were credited with a whopping 34 confirmed air-to-air kills, accounting for the bulk of coalition victories in the air. There’s something about the fourth-generation ...
At a January 1991 meeting, leadership of the U.S. National Guard 146 Military Police Battalion expected to learn where the ...
Darlene Mayes has many mementos, but she doesn’t have her daughter’s engagement ring. It was buried with 22-year-old Christine Mayes after she was killed by an Iraqi Scud missile during Operation ...
Operation Desert Storm was 10 seconds away. Tom O’Neal was about to fire the first shot in the war that would end Saddam Hussein’s occupation of Kuwait. And he didn’t know it. Although the battle plan ...
VICENZA, Italy — When David Kasten and his fellow squad members saw Iraqi forces approaching their hideout, they called their higher command and got no response. Kasten knew they had to make a run for ...