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  • Opening Night In Baghdad(story of the crew who started the war)

    04/08/2003 12:33:57 PM PDT · by green team 1999 · 16 replies · 282+ views
    aviationweek.aviationnow .com ^ | april-8-2003 | By David A. Fulghum
    Opening Night In Baghdad By David A. Fulghum In what may have been one of the most rapidly executed missions of the war so far, two F-117s of the 8th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron planned, loaded weapons, flew to Baghdad and bombed a residence where Saddam Hussein was spending the night--all in 4 hr. One of the two F-117s involved in the first night attack on Saddam Hussein and his sons returns to its Middle Eastern base after the no-notice mission. For the Mar. 19 mission that kicked off the conflict, members of the target cell in the combined air operations...