Date 7 April 2003 | Location Iraq | |
Result The first expeditionary insertion of a U.S. ard force into combat by air. Combatants United States of America, Iraqi insurgents Similar Operation Bulldog Mammoth, Operation Bayonet Lightning, Iraq War, Operation Iron Hammer, Operation Desert Scorpion | ||
On 7 April 2003, Task Force 1-63 landed 5 M1A1 tanks, 5 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, and a battalion command post with satellite communications at Bashur Airfield in northern Iraq. Much of the Iraqi military capitulated 3 days later.
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