ANTHOLOGY AND ANNOTATED BIBLJOGRAPHY                                         23S

21 January--Baghdad aired footage of captured allied airmen that included five
Americans,   two Britons,   an Italian, and a Kuwaiti who appeared in their
uniforms and spoke stiffly.  Several of the prisoners had swollen, bruised faces.
Marine prisoners were identified as Lieutenant Colonel Clifford M. Acree and
Chief Warrant Officer Guy L. Hunter.    Their OV-10 Bronco was
shot down over southern Kuwait on 18 January.

29 January--The first serious ground fighting of Operation Desert Storm broke
out when Iraqi troops mounted an attack into Saudi Arabia along a 40-mile
front.  Company and battalion-sized Iraqi units centered their efforts on Khafii,
a deserted port city, six miles south of the border.     Saudi and Qatari troops,
supported by artillery and attack helicopters from the 1st Marine Division and
aircraft from the anti-Iraq coalition, recaptured the town two days later.   The
fighting produced the first ground casualties of the war; 11 Marines were killed
when their light armored vehicles were destroyed in a clash with Iraqi armored
forces.

5 February--The Secretary of the Navy authorized the involuntary recall of up
to 2,000 retired Marines who had completed at least 20 years of active duty and
who were under the age of 60.    According to ALMAR 33/91, the retirees were
to be retained on active duty for as long as deemed necessary.

13 February--As of this date, the allied air forces had flown more than 65,000
sorties in Iraq and Kuwait, with a total of 28 planes lost in combat--19 from the
United States and nine from allied forces.  Of the 19 U.S. planes, four were
Marine Corps aircraft--three AV-8B Harriers and 1 OV-10 Bronco.          Marine
artillery units, using 155mm towed and 8-inch self-propelled howitzers staged
a series of nighttime artillery raids over the heavily defended border of Kuwait.

13, 16 February--The Marine Corps ordered an additional 1,758 Selected Marine
Corps Reservists to active duty on these dates.  The total number of Selected
Marine Corps Reserves called up during Operations Desert Storm and Desert
Shield was brought up to 24,703.   With the advent of war in the Persian Gulf,
President Bush authorized the Secretary of Defense to expand the callup of
Marine reservists to include the Individual Ready Reserve.     At the same time,
the Marine Corps Reserve mobilization ceiling of 23,000 was hiked to 44,000.

14 February--As of this date, the active duty end strength of the Marine Corps
was 200,248 including reservists on active duty. It was the first time active duty
end strength exceeded 200,000 since fiscal year 1971.

15 February--Captain Jonathan R. Edwards of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the
first Marine casualty of the Persian Gulf war to be buried at Arlington National
Cemetery.    He was killed on 2 February when the AH-1 Cobra helicopter he
was flying crashed in the desert.  Major Eugene McCarthy of Brooklyn, New
York, also died in the crash.