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The Battle of 73 Easting and the movement to contact south of the battle brought the regiment's covering force mission for VII Corps to its conclusion. During the operation the regiment covered the advance of three different U.S. divisions in turn, moved 120 miles in eighty-two hours and fought elements of five Iraqi Divisions. [ 42 ]
The initial skirmishes between American and Iraqi Republican Guard units took place earlier that day around the grid reference line 73 Easting, some 30 miles west of Wadi al Batin, where the 2ACR managed to destroy two Iraqi armored brigades. The skirmishes in this sector were still going on when the 3rd Armored Division (3AD) positioned north ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Yom Kippur War Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict and the Cold War Clockwise from top-left: Israeli tanks crossing the Suez Canal Israeli Nesher variant of the Mirage V fighter jet flying over the Golan Heights Israeli soldier praying in the Sinai Peninsula Israeli troops evacuating wounded ...
The Battle of Wadi, occurring on 13 January 1916, [2] was an unsuccessful attempt by British forces fighting in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) during World War I to relieve beleaguered forces under Sir Charles Townshend then under siege by the Ottoman Sixth Army at Kut-al-Amara.
The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * ... Battle of Wadi al-Laban; Battle of Wolf Ravine
The battle took place about 60 miles (97 km) east of and 18 hours after the Battle of Al Busayyah, and several kilometers east of the Battle of 73 Easting, which had ended just two hours earlier. The Battle of Norfolk is named for Objective Norfolk , an area that encompassed the intersection of the IPSA Pipeline Road and several desert trails ...
The Battle of Nyala was a battle for control of Nyala, ... and clashes between army forces and the RSF in the neighborhoods of El Wadi, ... [73] That same day, ...
Battle of Wadi may refer to several battles that have taken place in a valley (Arabic, wadi): Battle of Wadi Haramia (167 BC), the first Hand to hand combat battle fought between the Maccabees and the Seleucid Empire; Battle of Wadi al-Khaznadar (1299), a Mongol victory over the Mamluks; Battle of Wadi (1916), a battle between the Allies and ...