Iraqi troops surrendered to the Missouri's Pioneer unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) during the initial shelling on Feb. The big guns weren't the only contribution made by the aging men o' war, though. It was the last hurrah for the Iowa-class battleships. Iraq capitulated, and the coalition forces liberated Kuwait. Army's VII Corps, led by the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, hit the Iraqis from the west the XVIII Corps came at them via the Iraqi Desert and the 101st Airborne conducted the deepest air assault into enemy territory in history - just to name a few elements of the invasion.īritish, French and American ground forces hit the Iraqis hard within 100 hours, the whole thing was over. The 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions poured into Kuwait overland and headed straight for Kuwait City. USS Missouri firing her 16-inch guns during Desert Storm on Feb. The stage was set for a coalition invasion through an amphibious landing via Kuwait's Failaka Island. battleship lit up an enemy target for the first time since the Vietnam War, when the Wisconsin knocked out Iraqi artillery targets in southern Kuwait. In 100,000 sorties, allied airpower crippled Iraq's military and civilian infrastructure. and its coalition partners rained destruction on those troops and on Iraq in a massive air campaign. The only problem for Saddam's troops was that Iran never had the airpower of the United States.įor 42 days, the U.S. The Iraqi forces, though technologically advanced and massive on paper, were battle-hardened veterans of the Iran-Iraq War, which they had just spent a decade fighting. Resolution 678 expired, and Operation Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm. 17, 1991, the deadline for Iraqi withdrawal under U.N. (Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Brad Dillon/U.S. A BGM-109 Tomahawk land-attack missile is fired toward an Iraqi target from the battleship USS Missouri at the start of Operation Desert Storm.
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