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Originally Posted by spidge  Read more here: Gulf War Index Britains Small Wars - Gulf War (1991)
Chronology This is a chronology of the 44-day offensive campaign that expelled Iraq from Kuwait. Date Events Wed 16 Jan UN deadline expires at midnight UN time (0500 GMT) and authorization given to use all force to remove Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
Saddam Hussein takes direct control of Iraqi armed forces.
British Prime Minister gives a briefing on impending attack to Opposition leaders and then informs the Queen.
US; FBI ordered to track down some 3,000 Iraqis whose visas have expired. President Bush orders the attack.
At 2150 GMT, cruise missiles are launched, and at 2330 GMT, heavy anti-aircraft fire is reported in Baghdad.
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Shortly after the Iraqi surrender, a couple of pics of an RAF Tornado with a lot of skinning blown off the top of the port wing appeared in "The Sun" newspaper, with the heading "On a wing and a prayer". The story stated that Iraqi AAA during one of the low-level airfield attacks had crippled the 'Tonka' but it had made it back to its' Saudi base. I queried the i.d. and facts on this with a researcher who had collected quite a few pics of Gulf War RAF "Nose-Art" and he told me hew as unaware of any such incident, BUT that there had been an incident where a 1,000-lb LGB had exploded prematurely underneath a tornado immediately after release, damaging the aircraft.
There was a bizarre similarity with another incident 60+ years ago when a Lancaster came back minus the tail turret. The original pic caption said the turret had been blasted off by fire from two German night-fighters, but the reality was that it had been severed by a 1,000-lb bomb from another RAF bomber overhead !
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