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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 ]
This is the order of battle for the Liberation of Kuwait campaign during the Gulf War between Coalition forces [1] and the Iraqi Armed Forces [2] between February 24–28, 1991. The order that they are listed in are from west to east. Iraqi units that were not in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations are excluded from this list.
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 ...
Two Iraqi T-54/55 tanks lie abandoned near Kuwait City on February 26, 1991. The attack began on the 26th when A-6 Intruder attack jets of the United States Marine Corps' 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing blocked the head and tail of the column on Highway 80, bombarding a massive vehicle column of mostly Iraqi Regular Army forces with Mk-20 Rockeye II cluster bombs, effectively boxing in the Iraqi ...
During the Battle of Aachen, in mid-October 1944, a 3rd Armored Division tank battalion (Task Force Hogan), attached to the 1st Infantry Division, assisted in the capture of the old imperial capital. This action added the liberation of the first major city inside Germany to Spearhead's long list of accomplishments during World War II.
In the days since, guns have killed at least 2244 more people. Chicago has seen more recent gun deaths than any other city in the U.S. In a speech there, President Obama said "too many of our children are being taken away from us" as a result of gun violence.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade ("Sky Soldiers") [1] is an airborne infantry brigade combat team (IBCT) of the United States Army based in Vicenza, Italy.It is the United States European Command's conventional airborne strategic response force for Europe.
The 73rd Cavalry Regiment is a Cavalry Regiment in the United States Army, first formed in 1941.Three squadrons of the 73rd Cavalry Regiment ("Airborne Thunder" [1]) provided reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition to the Brigade Combat Teams of the 82nd Airborne Division through July 2024 when the last of the three squadrons was deactivated.