Read more here: http://www.britains-smallwars.com/gulf/index.html Britains Small Wars - Gulf War (1991) [SIZE=+2]Chronology[/SIZE] [FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]This is a chronology of the 44-day offensive campaign that expelled Iraq from Kuwait.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]Date[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]Events[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]Wed 16 Jan[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]UN deadline expires at midnight UN time (0500 GMT) and authorization given to use all force to remove Iraqi troops from Kuwait. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]Saddam Hussein takes direct control of Iraqi armed forces. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]British Prime Minister gives a briefing on impending attack to Opposition leaders and then informs the Queen. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]US; FBI ordered to track down some 3,000 Iraqis whose visas have expired. President Bush orders the attack. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]At 2150 GMT, cruise missiles are launched, and at 2330 GMT, heavy anti-aircraft fire is reported in Baghdad. Read more at the above link. [/SIZE][/FONT]
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 ! BC
