To: colette_g
Interesting info on BBC News web site (excerpt below ) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2870033.stm
Royal Marine Commandos launched an aerial and amphibious assault on strategically important 'Red Beach', providing a foothold for an assault on Baghdad.
To: colette_g
Is "Red Beach" on the Persian Gulf? Can't see any other beach head possibility.
Prairie
2,537 posted on
03/20/2003 12:44:21 PM PST by
prairiebreeze
(God Bless and Protect the Allied Troops. And their families here at home---they are soldiers too.)
To: colette_g
Some were saying that the Royal Marines commandos were going to go upriver and land on the riverside near Basra.
This should be interesting.
Note that you haven't heard from the 101st and the Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne. The airborne always jumps in the early morning.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
2,543 posted on
03/20/2003 12:45:20 PM PST by
section9
(You will all be shot unless you download the Saddam screensaver...)
To: colette_g
Ties in with my post #2526. That's for the confirmation.
GO ANZAC!!!!
To: colette_g
Ties in with my post #2526. Thanks for the confirmation.
GO ANZAC!!!!
To: colette_g
Here you go...
Here!Beach landings
The Marines' assault on Red Beach took places less than an hour after a massive artillery bombardment on southern Iraq.
ATTACK OPTIONS
40 and 42 Commandos, which include hundreds of soldiers moved into the peninsula, while 539 Assault Squadron made beach landings and cleared Iraqi mines on land and at sea.
Royal Marines snipers, Brigade Reconnaissance Force and US Navy Seal teams cleared the way for the assault, attacking Iraqi positions before and during the attack.
2,554 posted on
03/20/2003 12:47:48 PM PST by
Dog
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