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# Gulf War
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The Boeing B-52 Was the Greatest Fighting Airplane of Them All
Officially it is known as the Stratofortress, following the styling assigned to its predecessors, the B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-29 Superfortress. But unofficially it has long been called the BUFF, an…
Crime
30 Facts About the Rise and Fall of Saddam Hussein, the Butcher of Baghdad
Saddam Hussein was a figure whose reign of terror was supported by the United States until he could no longer…
Warfare History
This Day In History: The Iran and Iraq War Begins (1980)
On this day in history, Iraq invaded Iran. There was a long-standing territorial dispute between Iran and Iraq. Iran was the…
Warfare History
This Day In History: Iraq Invaded Kuwait (1990)
On this day in history, in the middle of the night, Iraqi forces invade Kuwait. The Iraqi dictator took the…