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January 17, 1991 Operation Desert Storm began

On January 17, 1991, the "Desert Storm" operation began.

In southern Turkey, when American helicopters flew in, hungry people looted food.

On January 17, 1991, a US-led multinational force launched hundreds of aircraft to bomb Iraq on a massive scale. The operation was aimed at liberating Kuwait. Earlier, multinational forces implemented the "Desert Shield" program; then, on February 24, multinational forces launched the "Desert Army Knife" operation, forcing Iraq to unconditionally accept 12 UN Security Council resolutions on the Gulf crisis.

The Operation Desert Storm operated 7,6 thousand fighter jets, losing more than 40 percent of the Iraqi military's combat capacity.

The oil well fires in Kuwait block the sun

An American soldier wounded in the Gulf War burst into tears when he learned that his close comrade-in-arms had died. ()

Iraqi tanks on Kuwait streets

This aircraft played a great role in the Gulf War

During the Gulf War, President Bush, who was on vacation, kept in touch with the front lines and remotely controlled the situation in the Gulf



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