Desert Storm Revisited

Operation Desert Storm, Iraq
John McCutcheon / Department of Defense

Attack from Sea and Sky
Operation Desert Shield was rechristened Desert Storm on January 16, 1990, when the U.S. began a massive series of bombing strikes on Iraq's aerial defenses and communications centers. For the first time, the U.S. deployed in war its fearsome Tomahawk missiles, firing them from warships like the U.S.S. Wisconsin, above.

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