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From: roger@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Roger Safian)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: a historic event in air warfare?
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.011944.28887@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 01:19:44 GMT
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From: roger@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Roger Safian)
In article <1991Feb6.031914.21019@cbnews.att.com> jimp%sequent.uucp@RELAY.CS.NET (James Pilcher) writes:

>1) after the battle of khafji, a ten-mile long convoy of 
>tanks, troop transports and vehicles was reported headed
>towards khafji. last i heard, it was stopped dead at the border,
>by our air power. is this not a unique event in military
>history?

    This is far from unique.  It was a regular event in WW II and Korea.
I don't have any references in front of me, but I do know that some German
divisions arrived in Normandy with a severly reduced effective strength due
to our airpower.  Not to mention how much they were delayed.  I seem to recall
that either the 12th or 17th SS took a terrible pasting on the way to Normandy.
Also take a look at the damage we did to the North Korean's as they tried to
flee after the Inchon(sp) invasion.  There are plenty of other examples, but
perhaps we should move this to Soc.History.

                                                             Roger

[mod.note:  It's OK here, so long as it remains addressing the technical
question of airpower versus columns and doesn't digress into pure history.
- Bill ]