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The story of 'Fright Night' – the world's fiercest tank battle


25 Feb 2021, 12:33 GMT
U.S. soldiers examine an Iraqi tank destroyed in February 1991, when 35 nations joined forces to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s military occupation.
Photograph by Photograph Eric Bouvet, Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
The most pitched tank battle in the history of warfare was fought not against the Nazis in Europe or North Africa but just 30 years ago, in the desert of Iraq. 
Operation Desert Sabre, the four-day ground offensive of the six-week military operation known as Desert Storm, involved a fierce tank-against-tank campaign that outstripped even World War II’s savage battle of Kursk, which saw some 6,000 German and Soviet tanks battle over a gruelling six-week period. ....

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The untold story of the world's fiercest tank battle


The untold story of the world’s fiercest tank battle
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The most pitched tank battle in the history of warfare was fought not against the Nazis in Europe or North Africa but just 30 years ago, in the desert of Iraq. 
Operation Desert Sabre, the four-day ground offensive of the six-week military operation known as Desert Storm, involved a fierce tank-against-tank campaign that outstripped even World War II’s savage battle of Kursk, which saw some 6,000 German and Soviet tanks battle over a grueling six-week period.
“Kursk was bigger if you consider the entire campaign,” says retired colonel and historian Gregory Fontenot, who commanded a tank battalion in what was perhaps Desert Storm’s most intense few hours an overnight free-for-all that participants later called Fright Night. ....

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