Operation Desert Storm
Britishnoun
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Operation Desert Storm in 1991 included 1,300 U.S. aircraft from the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, according to information from Air & Space Forces Magazine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
He persuaded Saudi Arabia's King Fahd to allow the deployment of more than 400,000 United States troops on his territory in the lead-up to Operation Desert Storm.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
It became a permanent installation two years later and has trained thousands of service members, sending troops to battle in Operation Desert Storm and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2025
During Operation Desert Storm, he spent close to two years at bases in Europe, but he returned to the U.S. and Whiteman Air Force Base in western Missouri when his wife became ill.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2023
In Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the United States had routed the forces of Saddam Hussein in Kuwait.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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