USS Harry Truman (CVN 75) - Naval Cruise Book

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One month later, HST and Carrier Air Wing THREE were ordered to carry out an even larger strike - destroying 20 radar and anti- aircraft artillery sites. Before the strike, and in less than two months of HST s time in the Arabian Gulf, there were more than 60 separate instances of Iraqi surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery fired directly against coalition aircraft patrolling the No-Fly Zone in support of Operation

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fter just two weeks on station, HST was called upon to launch strikes against Iraq lilitary targets. In response to Iraqi threats to coalition aircraft by firing anti-aircraft artillery and surface to-air missiles, aircraft from Carrier Air Wing THREE embarked aboard HST used precision- guided weapons to strike radar systems and ant aircraft artillery sites in southern Iraq.

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