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The Battle of Wadi al-Batin, also known as the Battle of Ruqi Pocket, took place before the beginning of the Desert Storm operations on 16 February 1991. This is not to be confused with the "Battle of Wadi al-Batin" which was fought later in the four-day ground war between elements of the 1st Cavalry Division (United States) and the Iraqi Republican Guard.
On 19 February, the 2nd Brigade's Task Force 1–5 Cav conducted Operation Knight Strike, a reconnaissance in force through the Wadi al-Batin, becoming the first coalition unit to enter Iraq. The task force suffered 12 casualties, but successfully accomplished its mission of simulating the reconnaissance efforts for an impending invasion.
Operation Rösselsprung (German: Unternehmen Rösselsprung, lit. 'Knight's move') was a combined airborne and ground assault by the German XV Mountain Corps and collaborationist forces on the Supreme Headquarters of the Yugoslav Partisans in the Bosnian town of Drvar in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II.
This was orchestrated as a complex two-stage operation codenamed Unternehmen Rösselsprung (Operation Knight's Move); the force was the strongest yet assembled for a convoy attack but was hampered by an unwieldy chain of command, with the authority to attack resting with Hitler and a contradictory mission statement; the forces were instructed ...
Rösselsprung is the Knight's move in chess and was a plan to intercept Convoy PQ 17, expected in late June 1942. Two German naval forces were assembled, one at Trondheim, comprised the battleship Tirpitz, the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper and six destroyers (Admiral Otto Schniewind); the second, at Narvik, was composed of the heavy cruisers Lützow, Admiral Scheer and six destroyers (Vice ...
The Kitty Hawk Battle Group participated in a airstrike on Jan 13 to Jan 22 in 1993. BuNo 162883 as NL-405, one of the aircraft of VFA-27 that took part in the 13 January 1993 air strike against air defence targets in Southern Iraq.
Strike Fighter Squadron 136 (VFA-136) also known as the "Knighthawks" is a United States Navy strike fighter squadron based at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California. The "Knighthawks" are an operational fleet squadron flying the F/A-18E Super Hornet. They are homeported at NAS Lemoore and are currently assigned to Carrier Air Wing One, tail code AB
ARVN 23rd Division, 2nd and 5th Mobile Strike Force defence of Duc Lap CIDG base: Quang Duc Province: Aug 24 – Sep 9: Operation Tien Ho [1] ARVN 23rd Division operation: Quang Duc Province: 1091: Aug 28 – 31: Operation Cranberry Bog [16] One of the first Joint Personnel Recovery Center operations as part of Operation Black Knight to rescue ...