Battle of 73 Easting during Desert Storm.

I fought in this battle and found a good link on it. I remember seeing that Abrams get hit about 100 yards away from me.

Battle of 73 Easting at AllExperts

 

This battle is probably one of if not the most well described in history. I've heard that there were litterally people out there with tape measuerse after the battle. One US tank claimed 3 kills in either 7 or 9 seconds. It was used as a scenario in Janus I beleive to improve the model and perhaps in CASTFOREM as well.

 

I remember feeling very scared before this battle but once it began I was very numb. We constantly were moving. I remember my commander saying we covered 212 miles during the ground war. I think we slept maybe two hours a day for a week if that.

 

Here's one that brewed up in 2003.

I took this pictures just south of Al Zubayr.

Cheers

 

Drew that is very close to where the tank in my unit was hit except on the opposite side.

 

Here's the other one I took.


What hit the one from your unit?

I believe the one above was hit by a Hellfire from a USMC Cobra

 

I saw a T-72 hit one and another Abrams hit another. They were in the same area. It was very easy to get disoriented out there. I got lost for several hours myself.

 

That could be the one hit by an Abrams then-I'm no expert when it comes to tanks and the Cobra story was kind of a rumour.

I guess we must have been kicking some of the same shit around the same time then?

The last picture was taken shortly before my Land Rover needed rescuing by some nice USMC chaps with a wrecker.....My driver headed for the soft sand to avoid a mass of Abrams coming towards and got us stuck so they ended up pulling us out just before dark.

Cheers

 

Infact a bit further to the right of the above pictures I had this took of me on an Iraqi T-55 about 200/300 yards down the road.


For some reason we then attracted a bit of incoming in the way of mortar rounds so we decided to do one

 

There were several friendly fire incidents so you never know and then those things they choose to keep secret and I saw some of that too. We took a little mortar fire too. Still nothing like armor engagements. The Iraqis were not very good and their equipment was not nearly as good as ours.

 

It was the fedayeen I experienced problems with

 

Hey! I am doing a paper on the battle of 73 easting. Could some of you guys that were in it email me with your own experiences if you could! I would really appreciate it!

 

That'll be difficult, since one is no longer a member and the other hasn't posted here for 15 months....