Operation Airborne Dragon
Operation Airborne Dragon |
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Part of the Operation Iraqi Freedom |
Date | 7 April 2003 |
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Location | Iraq |
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The first expeditionary insertion of a U.S. armored force into combat by air. |
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Belligerents |
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United States |
Iraqi Insurgency |
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| Insurgent attacks of the Iraq War |
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On 7 April 2003, Task Force 1-63 landed 5 M1A1 tanks, 5 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, and a battalion command post with satellite communications at Bashur Airfield in northern Iraq. Much of the Iraqi military capitulated 3 days later.
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