The Road to Safwan: The 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry in the 1991 ...

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Desert Storm,” in Jim Stockmoe, ed., 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division,
Desert Shield/ Storm History (Fort Riley, KS: 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry
Division, 1991), 68.
33. Team C had two tank platoons and one mechanized infantry platoon.
Team D had two mechanized infantry platoons and one tank
platoon.
34. Robert A. Burns and Robert P. Harn Jr., interview by Robert Cook,
28 March 1991, US Army Center for Military History; Fontenot,
“Fright Night,” 45.
35. Fontenot, “Fright Night,” 45.
36. Maggart, “A Leap of Faith,” 28.
37. John S. Brown, “Desert Reckoning: Historical Continuities and the
Battle for Norfolk, 1991” (paper, Naval War College, 1992), 3.
38. Vogel, “Hell Night,” 15.
39. Brown, “Desert Reckoning,” 4–5.
40. Ibid, 18–19.
41. Ibid.
42. VII Corps TOC Journal G3-Operations, 26 February 1991, entry 28;
Tom Donnley, “The General’s War,” Army Times (2 March 1992),
16. Both Generals Powell and Schwarzkopf suggest in their memoirs
that they had little idea of the intensity of the unit fight in the
VII Corps sector (Powell, My American Journey, 504; Schwarzkopf,
It Doesn’t Take a Hero, 540).
43. Vogel, “Hell Night,” 18.
44. VII Corps G3 Operations, Staff Journal, 27 February 1991, entry 3.
45. Maggart, “A Leap of Faith,” 28.
46. Scales, Certain Victory, 291; Fontenot, “Fright Night,” 47.
47. Bills interview, 25 May 1996; Pope interview, 5 October 1993.
48. Stephen A. Bourque, Jayhawk! The VII Corps in the Persian Gulf War
(Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2002),
339. It was a confusing melee in which, in addition to Iraqi fire, the
squadron’s vehicles were hit by friendly vehicles from at least two
units. Nine Bradleys were damaged, two soldiers killed, and
twelve wounded.
49. The 4-7 Cavalry screening the 3rd Armored Division was using a
1:100,000 map. The 1-4 Cavalry used 1:250,000 maps. See CPT
Douglas Morrison, Interview by John Burdan, HHT, 1st Squadron,
4th Cavalry, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 17 May 1994; Wilson interview,
28 July 1991; Wimbish interview, 28 September 1993.
50. Bills interview, 25 May 1996.