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Persian Gulf War
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Persian Gulf War | |||||||
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Clockwise from top: USAF aircraft flying over burning Kuwaiti oil wells; British troops in Operation Granby; Camera view of a Lockheed AC-130; Highway of Death; M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Kuwait United States Other Coalition forces |
Iraq | ||||||
Commanders | |||||||
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Norman Schwarzkopf |
Saddam Hussein Ali Hassan al-Majid | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
959,600[4] 1,820 Fighter aircraft and attack aircraft (1,376 American, 175 Saudi, 69 British, 42 French, 24 Canadian, 8 Italian) 3,318 tanks (mainly M1 Abrams(U.S.),Challenger 1(UK), M60(U.S.)) 8 aircraft carriers 2 battleships 20 cruisers 20 destroyers 5 submarines[5] |
545,000 (100,000 in Kuwait)+ 649 fighters 4,500 tanks (Chinese Type-59s, Type-69s, & self produced T-55 T-62, about 500 Soviet Union T-72) [5] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
379 killed
776 wounded[6] |
20,000-35,000 casualties[7] | ||||||
Civilian deaths: About 3,664 Iraqi civilians killed.[8] 2 Israeli civilians killed, 230 injured [9] |
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