Operation Desert Storm

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On January 16, 1991, President George H. W. Bush
announced the start of what would be called
Operation Desert Storma military operation to
expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which
Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier.
For weeks, a U.S.-led coalition of two dozen
nations had positioned more than 900,000 troops
in the region, most stationed on the Saudi-Iraq
border. A U.N.-declared deadline for withdrawal
passed on January 15, with no action from Iraq,
so coalition forces began a five-week bombardment
of Iraqi command and control targets from air and
sea. Despite widespread fears that Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein might order the use of
chemical weapons, a ground invasion followed in
February. Coalition forces swiftly drove Iraq
from Kuwait, advancing into Iraq, and reaching a
cease-fire within 100 hourscontroversially
leaving Saddam Hussein in power. While coalition
casualties were in the hundreds, Iraqi losses
numbered in the tens of thousands.
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French soldiers from the Foreign Legion
Infantry regiment in the Saudi desert near
Hafr al-Batin, wear full chemical warfare
equipment during a training session
before the Gulf War on October 26, 1990.
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Responding to Iraq's invasion of
Kuwait, troops of the U.S. 1st
Cavalry Division deploy across the Saudi desert
on November 4, 1990, during
preparations prior to the Gulf War.
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President George H. W. Bush in the Oval Office on
January 16, 1991 in Washington following his
statement concerning the U.S. attack of Iraq. The
president said, The world could wait no longer,
for U.S. action.
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Sergeant Rachel Forehand, rests her head on a
stuffed bear as the U.N. deadline for Iraq to
withdraw from Kuwait passed on January 16, 1991.
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People read a bulletin edition of the New York
Post reporting the outbreak of hostilities in the
Persian Gulf in New Yorks Times Square on
January 17.
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Defense Secretary Dick Cheney appears
with Gen. Colin Powell at a war
briefing at the Pentagon on January 17, 1991
announcing loss of an
American warplane in the attack on Iraq.
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Anti-aircraft fire following an air
attack by allied aircraft enforcing
the U.N. resolution early on January 18, 1991, in
Baghdad, Iraq.
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Soldiers, hotel workers and others,
some wearing gas masks, kneel for
morning prayers on January 18, 1991, in a
basement used as a bomb
shelter at a hotel in eastern Saudi Arabia.
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A crowd estimated in the tens of thousands
makes its way down Market Street in
San Francisco, on January 19, 1991, while
protesting the United
States attack on Iraq and Kuwait.
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A U.S. soldier and Saudi police officers
examine the wreckage of a scud missile,
which landed in downtown Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on
January 22, 1991 when Iraq launched a missile
attack on the Saudi capital.
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A column of U.S. Marine Amphibious Tracked
Vehicles moves north across the desert in Saudi
Arabia during the Gulf War on February 17, 1991.
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A young Iraqi boy carried a plate of
sausage in the ruins of houses in
an area west of Al-Ahrar Bridge, Baghdad, on
February 20, 1991,
after a recent allied bombing raid.
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A Kuwaiti helicopter herds Iraqi
prisoners of war, arms in the air,
across a stream in southeastern Kuwait, on
February 25, 1991.
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Somewhere in Iraqi desert, U.S
soldiers guard captured
Iraqi prisoners of war on February 25, 1991.
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French special-forces commandos
capture Iraqi soldiers
somewhere in Iraqi desert on February 26, 1991.
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Three British soldiers in full combat
and gas gear wait for the all-clear
signal in a hotel lobby in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia,
during a Scud attack on
February 26, 1991.
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A U.S. soldier stands night guard as
oil wells burn in the distance in
Kuwait, just south of the Iraqi border on
February 26, 1991.
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An Iraqi tank goes up in flames after being hit
by a TOW missile fired form the U.S. Armys 82nd
Airborne Division, in Iraq on February 27, 1991.
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The body of an Iraqi soldier lies in a
sandy ditch on the outskirts of
Kuwait City on February 27, 1991, after being
killed as coalition forces
moved in to liberate the city.
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A wounded US soldier left, cries after
being given the dog tags and
learning of the death of a fellow tank crewman,
in the body bag at right, in
this February 28, 1991 photo.
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Residents of Tanuma in the Iraqi province
of Basra stand guard over captured
Iraqi military personnel in March of 1991.
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A long line of vehicles, including destroyed
Iraqi Army Russian-made T-62 tanks and trucks
stand abandoned by fleeing Iraqi troops on the
outskirts of Kuwait City, on March 1, 1991, after
the liberation of Kuwait.
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A devastated convoy of vehicles on a
highway north of Kuwait City is visible in
this aerial photo made on March 1, 1991, during
the Gulf War.
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U.S. General Schwarzkopf, left, escorts
Iraqi military leaders to a tent to
set the terms for a permanent ceasefire. The
meeting took place at an
airbase in Safwan, Iraq, on March 3, 1991.
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A destroyed Iraqi tank rests near a
series of oil-well fires during
the Gulf War, on March 9, 1991, in northern
Kuwait.
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The bodies of dead Iraqi
soldiers hang from a truck
abandoned by fleeing Iraqi army on March 11,
1991.
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A satellite communications antenna destroyed
during Operation Desert Storm.
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An Iraqi sits huddled in a barbed wire holding
area at a U.S. checkpoint some 25 miles south of
Basra, on March 28, 1991 in Iraq, after he and
four others were arrested by U.S. soldiers for
allegedly robbing and murdering refugees.
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Several blown-out wells damaged by
retreating Iraqi soldiers in Al-Ahmadi
oil-field burn on April 1, 1991, in southern
Kuwait.
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A Fighter Squadron 114 (VF-114) F-14A
Tomcat aircraft flies over an oil well
set ablaze by Iraqi troops during Operation
Desert Storm.
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The effects of Iraqi troops setting
fire to the oil wells in Kuwait
during February 1991, is captured in this
photograph of the northwestern end
of the Persian Gulf taken on April 7, 1991.
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Geysers of flame and thick, toxic smoke spew
forth from just a few of the hundreds
of Kuwaiti oil wells set afire by fleeing Iraqi
troops.
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Red Adairs fire-fighting crews at work beside
a blown-out well damaged by retreating
Iraqi soldiers in Al-Ahmadi oil field in southern
Kuwait.
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Several blown-out wells damaged by
retreating Iraqi soldiers in
Al-Ahmadi oil field burn on June 5, 1991, in
southern Kuwait.
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