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Feb 91 {Cont)	

22 Feb (Cont) 	Day 38, Wave One: For wave one of Day 18,
		 Headquarters Central Air Forces tasked the
		 wing to concentrate on a suspected research
		 facility in Baghdad, a steel fabrication
		 plant in Taji, and a suspected Scud mis
		 sile production facility in Latifiya. The
		 37 TFWP sent ten aircraft--four 41S TFS and
		 six 416 TFS--to accomplish the task. upon
		 arriving over Baghdad's research facility,
		 the four 415th pilots and one 416 TFS pilot
		 directed ten bombs to target for a perfect
		 bombing performance. Remaining 416 TFS
		 pilots attacked production facilities in
		 Tajl and Latifiya, striking them on seven
		 of eight attempts.

		Day 38, Wave Two: A nuclear research
		 facility in Baghdad represented ground zero
		 for fourteen Stealth fighter pilots in the
		 second wave. The 415 TFS successfully
		 unleashed eight F-117As toward Baghdad,
		 while the 416 TFS offered six jets for the
		 attacks One aircraft air aborted enroute
		 to the target, but the remaining 13 pilots
		 reached the nuclear research facility and
		 pounded it with 19 direct hits. Four
		 weapons missed their target.

23 Feb 		Day 38, Wave Three: Wing pilots pooled
		 their resources once again and attacked the
		 Iraqi Intelligence and Special Operations
		 headquarters in this night's third wave.
		 Ten jets from the 415 TFS and 416 TFS (four
		 and six, respectively) launched as planned
		 to destroy these strategic targets. One -
		 aircraft air aborted. The others flew on
		 to Iraq and struck their targets with 15
		 direct hits. Only one bomb failed to bit
		 the mark.

		 Day 39, Wave One: On this day, the F-ll7A
		 strike force began in earnest to pave the
		 way for a coalition ground invasion of Iraq
		 and Kuwait. Just before sunset, the 37
		TFWP began the massive launch that put 31
		 jets in the air within 44 minutes. In this
		 first wave, the largest Stealth fighter
		 attack to date, pilots concentrated on six
		 different targets: a Baghdad bomb assembly
		 plant at Cardoen, a chemical warfare site
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