Word: hugheses
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Alerted by the reconnaissance as to where the next U.S. thrust would come, they came out in force to stop it. For a few minutes, it seemed that every window along the ridge was spitting out machinegun bullets. Hoping to keep collateral damage to a minimum, Battalion commander LTC Chris...
Over the next few hours, the battalion fired over 45 missiles into the apartment complex, almost all of them going directly through a window. By 9:00pm, it was a brave Iraqi who was willing to draw the attention of the deadly accurate TOWs, and enemy fire had almost completely...
No sooner had Hughes trained his binoculars on the area than it exploded under the impact of a TOW missile. But Kiowa helicopters had spotted two others behind the ridge, and reported other enemy in the area. Hughes ordered the Kiowa's to attack with their rockets and now called...
Hughes spoke into the microphone, "What building?"
Having met more resistance then he expected Hughes continued to pound the ridge line with mortars, artillery and over a dozen more air strikes.