Word: 52s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pretenders, Howard Jones, k.d. lang, the B-52s, Belinda Carlisle, Exene Cervenka...
During the night, B-52s pounded Iraqi positions and helicopter gunships swept the defense lines, firing rockets at tanks and artillery pieces and machine-gunning soldiers in the trenches. Allied artillery opened an intense bombardment from howitzers and multiple-launch rocket systems that released thousands of shrapnel-like bomblets over the trenches. Everything was ready for the ground troops to begin moving in the last hours of darkness, taking advantage of the allies' superior night-vision equipment...
...knows that better than General Norman Schwarzkopf. Not only was he once bombed by U.S. B-52s in Vietnam, but he was the commanding officer of a young Iowa farm boy, Michael Mullen, whose death by U.S. shelling became the subject of C.D.B. Bryan's 1976 best seller, Friendly Fire...
Allied engineers will then begin cutting roads through the minefields. At that point, the Republican Guards will have to concentrate their dispersed, dug-in forces and counterattack. The day and night bombardment by B-52s and missile attacks from planes and helicopters will continue. The international forces will quickly be free to roll across Kuwait. "The Iraqis have never faced major maneuver operations," says Cordesman...
...accommodated at bases in Saudi Arabia and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. The agreement was no surprise in the case of loyal ally Britain, but a very considerable surprise on the part of the formerly aloof government in Madrid. France agreed to allow the B-52s to fly over its territory. Being France, however, it attached conditions -- among them that the B-52s not carry nuclear bombs...