The stage was set for a coalition invasion through an amphibious landing via Kuwait's Failaka Island. battleship lit up an enemy target for the first time since the Vietnam War, when the Wisconsin knocked out Iraqi artillery targets in southern Kuwait. In 100,000 sorties, allied airpower crippled Iraq's military and civilian infrastructure. and its coalition partners rained destruction on those troops and on Iraq in a massive air campaign. The only problem for Saddam's troops was that Iran never had the airpower of the United States.įor 42 days, the U.S.
The Iraqi forces, though technologically advanced and massive on paper, were battle-hardened veterans of the Iran-Iraq War, which they had just spent a decade fighting. Resolution 678 expired, and Operation Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm. 17, 1991, the deadline for Iraqi withdrawal under U.N. (Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Brad Dillon/U.S. A BGM-109 Tomahawk land-attack missile is fired toward an Iraqi target from the battleship USS Missouri at the start of Operation Desert Storm.
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