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10 September 2017 70 years of airpower
Gulf War,
Operation Desert Storm
Following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in late 1990, President George H.W. Bush assembled a coalition to force the Iraqis out of Kuwait.
The U.S. Air Force provided the bulk of the Allied air power during the Gulf War in 1991, flying alongside aircraft of the U.S. Navy and the Royal Air Force.
The F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter’s capabilities were shown on the first night of the air war when it was able to bomb central Baghdad and avoid the so- phisticated Iraqi anti-aircraft defenses.
The Air Force, along with the U.S. Navy and the RAF, later patrolled the skies of northern and southern Iraq after
See GULF WAR, Page 18
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