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Hawr al Ḩ ammārGROUND WARSituation 25 February 1991An NāşirīyahUnit positions approximateE L E V A T I O N I N F E E T0 500 1000 1500 2000 and Above040Tigr i s R i verMilesAl BaşrahI R A N24JALIBAHAz ZubayrAr Rumaylahoil fieldsS h a t t a l A r a bKhorramshahrAbadanAl Buşayyah3X XSafwānAr RawḑataynUmm Qaşr2I I IK U W A I TB ū b i yā nav1 BrX XX XARCENTX X X X20 SAJOINTFORCES COMMANDX X3 EGX X4 EGXXX X XAl Jahrah2 MarX1X X21 MarKUWAITAs Sālimīyah5 MEBX XX10 SAXXP E R S I A NG U L FXl BāținX X XJ F C - Nal Bāțin9 SYX XM A R C E N TJ F C - ERa’s al Khafjī
coordinated close air support strikes followed by attack helicopter runs onenemy targets. As the division closed to about ten to fifteen miles, artillery,rocket launchers, and tactical missile batteries delivered preparatoryfires. As division lead elements came into visual range, psychologicaloperations teams broadcast surrender appeals. If the Iraqis fired on theapproaching Americans, the attackers repeated artillery, rocket, and missilestrikes. In the experience of the 1st Armored Division, that sequencewas enough to gain the surrender of most Iraqi Army units on a givenobjective. Only once did the Iraqis mount an attack after a broadcast;and in that instance, a 1st Armored Division brigade destroyed forty tofifty tanks and armored personnel carriers in ten minutes at a range of1.2 miles.By the late morning of 25 February, Joint Forces Command–Northhad made enough progress to allow the VII Corps and Marine CentralCommand on the flanks to resume their advance. That afternoon andnight in the 1st Infantry Division sector, the Americans expanded theirmine breach and captured two enemy brigade command posts and the26th Infantry Division command post with a brigadier general andcomplete staff. Behind them, the British 1st Armoured Division madegood progress through the mine breach and prepared to turn right andattack the Iraqi 52d Armored Division.Approaching Al Busayyah in early afternoon, the 1st ArmoredDivision directed close air support and attack helicopter sorties on anIraqi brigade position, destroying artillery pieces, several vehicles, andtaking nearly three hundred prisoners. That night, the 2d ACR and 3dArmored Division oriented east and encountered isolated enemy unitsunder conditions of high winds and heavy rains.With the coalition advance well under way all along the line, a U.S.Navy amphibious force made its final effort to convince the Iraqis thatCENTCOM would launch a major amphibious assault into Kuwait.Beginning late on 24 February and continuing over the following twodays, the Navy landed the 7,500-man 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigadeat Al Mish’ab, Saudi Arabia, about twenty-eight miles south of theborder with Kuwait. Once ashore, the 5th became the reserve for JointForces Command–East. Later investigation showed that the presence ofthe amphibious force in Persian Gulf waters before the ground war hadforced the Iraqi command to hold in Kuwait as many as four divisionsto meet an amphibious assault that never materialized.At daybreak on 25 February, Iraqi units made their first counterattackin the Marine sector, hitting the 2d Marine Division right and center.While Marine regiments fought off an effort that they named the Reveille48
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