The coalition encouraged the idea that the British would be part of the main attack. Therefore the Iraqis were expected to believe that the location of the British forces would identify the main point of attack.
The plan was to deceive the Iraqis into thinking the British were in the east when they had actually moved west. During the exercise before the start of the ground war, the British Division only radiated at full power when it was moving towards the east and kept radio silence when travelling west, even though this significantly hampered their ability to train the combat-net radio management teams.
They retransmitted these recordings from the east, opposite Kuwait, before and immediately after the advance of the Division into Iraq. On 24 February the ground attack began. Doing this at high speed in soft-skinned communications vehicles, surrounded by armoured vehicles, was challenging. After covering miles in hours, with seven changes of command for Divisional Main, Kuwait was liberated, the Iraqis were defeated and a ceasefire was announced.
Below — Stephen Williams left from 14 Signal Regiment who kindly donated a number of the images on this page. Above Radio relay in the Gulf. Allied total losses were estimated at personnel killed as a direct result of enemy action, the majority from the US, 47 were British. The Imperial War Museum estimates that between 20, and 35, Iraqi soldiers died during the ground war with civilian deaths resulting from the conflict estimated at between , and , While waiting to advance, his troop was credited with taking the first Iraq POWs, 62 in total, to be captured by British ground forces.
The team drove for 24 hours non-stop in their Bedford lorries and Land Rovers to reach his pre-selected location in time to set up communications as the Division advanced towards Kuwait. This hardback, illustrated coffee table book is packed full of stories about people, units and events in the context of campaigns, technologies and equipment. Buy now from the Royal Signals Museum Shop.
On the initial deployment of 7th Armoured Brigade it was decided not to deploy the Wavell system. The bulk of the mission ended on 30 April They were instrumental in the capture of Basra and then the subsequent stabilisation operations.
Following the defeat of Iraqi forces and the removal of Saddam Hussein, the Coalition Forces continued to mount stabilisation and support operations in Iraq until National Army Museum 10am - 5. Toggle navigation. View this object. British infantry vehicles advancing, Iraq, Saddam attacks On 2 August Iraq invaded its neighbour Kuwait after talks on oil production and debt repayment collapsed. Poster of President Saddam Hussein, s. Map of the Persian Gulf, c A multi-launch system firing anti-tank rockets, American M1 Abrams main battle tank, A destroyed Iraqi T tank in the Kuwait desert, Surrender leaflet dropped on Iraqi forces occupying Kuwait, February Desert Sabre When the ground offensive, Desert Sabre, began on 24 February , the Iraqis were expecting a frontal assault from the south.
Kuwait liberated As the flank attack took place, coalition soldiers penetrated deep into Kuwait, collecting thousands of deserting Iraqi troops, demoralized by the air campaign.
Behind the lines After the outbreak of war, the Iraqis fired scud missiles at Israel in the hopes of drawing it into the war and forcing Arab countries to break with the Americans. I think the war really was the air campaign. The phenomenal beating that Iraq took over the six week air war was phenomenal… the estimation was something like ,, were killed alone in the air war On an evening you could see the sky just lit up permanently.
One flash would finish, another one would come, and over, over again you could feel the buffeting coming over the berms that surrounded our unit'. Wrecked military and civilian vehicles on the Basra road, Aftermath Although some felt that the US should have pursued the war until Saddam Hussein was overthrown, this was not the purpose of the UN mandate. Re-arming a Challenger tank in the desert, Casualties During the campaign coalition troops were killed and wounded. Guerrilla warfare The later conflict in Iraq in demonstrated how a technologically inferior force could engage a much stronger foe.
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