Desert Storm Revisited

The Highway of Death
Decimated and in disarray, the retreating Iraqi troops raced out of Kuwait in pell mell flight, fleeing in whatever vehicles they could commandeer along the roads leading north to Basra, Iraq's second largest city. The highways were so jammed with vehicles that one observer compared it to "Daytona Beach at Spring break." But for the allies' fighter bombers, the resulting traffic jams were like shooting fish in a barrel, and the result was a scene of carnage and wrecked vehicles that came be known as the Highway of Death.

• Going Home from Iraq