Desert Storm Revisited
AP
View From Above
Unlike the second Gulf War, in which journalists routinely embedded with American troops on the ground, Desert Storm was largely carried out in the air, and coverage of it was largely rendered in videos that showed what the air strikes looked like to the airmen who carried them out. This composite of video stills shows a smart bomb (indicated by the arrow in the top left frame) hitting and destroying an Iraqi target.
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