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Coalition forces pressed another 10 km (6.2 mi) into Iraqi territory, and captured their objective within three hours. They took 500 prisoners and inflicted heavy losses, defeating Iraq's 26th Infantry Division. A US soldier was killed by an Iraqi land mine, another five by friendly fire, and 30 wounded during the battle.
On 4 September 2015, 52 UAE soldiers (together with 10 Saudi and 5 Bahraini soldiers) were killed when a Houthi missile hit an ammunition dump at a military base in Ma'rib Governorate, [26] marking the "highest death toll on the battlefield in the country's history".
A USAF Boeing CT-43 73-1149, call sign IFO 21, of the 76th Airlift Squadron, 86th Airlift Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on an official trade mission, crashed on approach to Dubrovnik Airport, Croatia, killing United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 34 other people. The crash board findings, announced 7 June 1996, blamed the crash ...
Two US servicemen were arrested after a man was fatally stabbed during an argument at a carnival in Germany, according to police and the US Air Force.. Officials say that the 28-year-old victim ...
The United States Armed Forces were initially organized as USEFT (United States Force European Theater, from August 1, 1945 to February 28, 1946, in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main, in the IG Farben building. On March 15, 1947 they were reassigned to EUCOM (European Command) in Frankfurt, 1948 moved from Frankfurt to Heidelberg, Campbell Barracks.
Three soldiers from the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces and an officer from the Bahrain Defense Force have been killed in an attack at the General Gordon military base in Mogadishu.
A United States Air Force (USAF) Convair C-131D Samaritan, 55-291, of the 7500th Air Base Group, on take-off from Munich-Riem Airport for a flight to RAF Northolt, United Kingdom, crashed at 14:10 local time in Munich, Germany, due to loss of power in one engine caused by fuel starvation; aircraft struck a church steeple and then a tramcar at ...
Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition flew over 100,000 sorties, dropping 88,500 tons of bombs, [4] widely destroying military and civilian infrastructure. [5] The air campaign was commanded by United States Air Force (USAF) Lieutenant General Chuck Horner , who briefly served as Commander-in-Chief—Forward of U.S. Central Command ...