One of the weirder bits of Desert Storm was that under the terms of the cease fire, the Iraqis were allowed to withdraw the Republican Guard, provided they left their armor and heavy weapons behind. But two days after the cease fire, elements of the Hammurabi division and other remnants of the IRGC were caught on a narrow causeway in the marshes of the Tigris-Euphrates region. After opening fire on a US patrol, they were systematically destroyed by the 24th Infantry Division, and more specifically, by the division’s Apache attack helicopter battalion, the 1/24th Aviation Regiment.
One of the weirder bits of Desert Storm was that under the terms of the cease fire, the Iraqis were allowed to withdraw the Republican Guard, provided they left their armor and heavy weapons behind. But two days after the cease fire, elements of the Hammurabi division and other remnants of the IRGC were caught…
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