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26 FEBRUARY

- I MEF

  -- 0805C.   I MEF ATTACKED TO SECURE KUWAIT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

     AND SECURED OBJECTIVES WEST AND NORTHWEST OF KUWAIT CITY.   ALL

     ROAD INTERSECTIONS WERE CUT PREVENTING THE ESCAPE OF IRAQI

     FORCES FROM KUWAIT CITY.


- XVIII CORPS

  -- 0800C.   101ST ABN DIV(AASLT) CONTINUED TO INTERDICT HWY 8 IN

     AO EAGLE WITH 1 BDE AND AIR CAV SQDN.

  -- 0913C.   12TH AVN BDE CHOPPED TO 101ST ABN DIV (AASLT)

  -- 1525C.   24TH COMMENCED ATK TO SEIZE OBJECTIVES GOLD AND
     ORANGE.

  -- 1525C.   3RD ACR CONTINUED SCREENING XVIII CORPS RIGHT FLANK

     AND THEN PLACED OPCON TO 24TH ID IN ORDER TO CONTINUE THE

     ATTACK EAST AND DESTROY THE REPUBLICAN GUARDS.

  -- 1730C.   2ND BDE, 82ND ABN DIV WAS RELEASED OPCON BACK TO THE

     82ND ABN DIV.   THE DIVISION MOVED TO OBJ GRAY TO PERFORM REAR

     AREA SECURITY.

  -- 1730C.   FRENCH SIXTH DIVISION COMMENCED SCREENING THE XVIII

     ABN CORPS LEFT FLANK AFTER CONSOLIDATING ITS FORCES ON OBJ

     WHITE.


- VII CORPS 0810C.

  -- 2 ACR,  1ST ARMOR DIV, AND 3RD ARMOR DIV CONTINUED TO ATTACK IN

     ZONE.   1ST ARMOR DIV ATTACKED AND SEIZED OBJ PURPLE (260600)

     WHILE THE 3RD ARMOR DIV PASSED THROUGH THE 2ND ACR AND

     ATTACKED OBJ COLLINS.

  -- 0930C.   1ST CAV DIV, THEATER RESERVE, WAS COMMITTED TO VII

     CORPS.

  -- 1800C.   1ST ARMOR DIV(UK) CONTINUED TO ATTACK EAST AND MADE

     CONTACT WITH IRAQI FORCES AT 0200C.   BY NOON ON THE 26TH, THE

     1ST ARMOR DIV(UK) HAD ESTIMATED IT DESTROYED ONE ARMOR BRIGADE

     AND ESTABLISHED A BLOCKING POSITION IN THE VII CORPS FIGHT

     FLANK.


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(INFORMATION CURRENT AS OF 27 FEB 1991)

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