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DESTINATION
BAGHDAD
The
Story
of
the
F-l
17A
Stealth
Fighter,
the
Plane
Credited
with
Ripping
Out
the
Eyes
and
the
Heart
of
the
Iraqi
War
Machine,
as
Told
by
the
Pilots
Who
Flew
the
Most
Dangerous
Missions
of
Operation
Desert
Storm.
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world
had
waited anxiously
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months
hoping
reason
would
prevail
with
the
Iraqi
despot
Saddam
Hussein.
He
had
prom-
ised
the
"Mother
of
All
Battles"
with
an
Allied
coalition
that
included
550,000
Americans
and
an
assembly
of
high-tech
military
hardware
unmatched
in
the
history
of
the
world.
When
all
efforts
at
reasoning
failed,
the
Allies
launched
an
unpre-
cedented
aerial
strike
that,
in
a
matter
of
hours,
ripped
the
heart
out
of
the
Iraqi
war
machine.
Leading
the
way
was
the
F-117A
Stealth
fighter,
an
exotic
black,
bat-shaped
plane
that
had
made
its
public
debut
less
than
a
year
earlier.
The
radar-evading
during
the
war.
eyes
It
F-l
17A
was
the
only
plane
aerial
attack
to
attack
Baghdad
launched
the
Allied
and
the
heart
of
the
Iraqi
and
ripped
out
the
war
machine
by
taking
out
com-
munications,
tle
command
and
control
facilities
in
the
first
hours
of
bat-
,
with
an
accuracy
unprecedented
in
aviation
history.
What
follows
is
an
incredible
aviation
success
story
told
by
the
people
who
designed
and
built
the
F-
1 1
7A,
and
the
pilots
who
flew
the
aircraft
in
its
baptism
of
fire.
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.
1
From
Tonopah
.
.
INDEX
Attack
on
Iraq
Preparations
in
Saudi
Page
3
Page
19
Page
26
Page
3
The
Pilots
Refueling
A
New
Mood
in
Washington
White
Paper
History
Page
34
Page
40
Page
41
Page
46
Skunk
Works
Col.
Al
Whitley,
Cmdr.,
37th
TFW
Page
49
The
Plane
Training
Families
Lockheed
Photo
Page
53
Page
59
Page
65
Page
68
Public
Support
Ben
Rich
Dedicated
To
-
Father
of
the
F117A
Page
70
TEAM
STEALTH,
To
The
550,000
Americans
Tonopah
Public
Unveiling
Page
74
Page
76
Who
Served
in
the
Gulf,
To
Their
Families,
To
America
's
Leaders
And
To Those
Who
Kept
Faith
in
Our
Country
Support
Personnel
Future
Copyright
®1
991
All
Rights
Reserved
Page
78
Page
84
Printed
in
the
United
States
of
America
1st
Printing,
August
1991
To
Baghdad
us.
Air
Force
Photo
2nd
Printing,
November
1
991
and
Compiled
By
Robert
and
Melinda
Macy
Written
Color
Separations
By
Desert
Media
Group
Typesetting
By
Group
High
Desert
Design
Published
By
M&M
Graphics
1920
Springview
Drive
Las
Vegas,
NV
89102
Phone
(702)
871-4035
Attack
on
Iraq
Just
before
3
a.m.
Jan.
17,
Iraqi
time,
eart
of
Baghdad
an
eerie,
lack,
bat-shaped
jet
slipped
undetected
across
the
and
unleashed
a
2,000
pound
radar-
uided
smart
bomb.
The
bomb
sailed
through
a
one-
ard-wide
vent
of
the
AT&T
communications
building
i
the
heart
of
downtown,
knocking
out
one
of
the
lajor
communications
links
for
the
Iraqi
military.
Elsewhere,
America's
radar-evading
wonder
truck
at
communications,
command
and
control
icilities
throughout
Iraq,
clawing
out
the
eyes
and
le
heart
of
the
nation's
military
Stealth
technology
does,
in
fact,
work.
Years
of
training
over
the
Nevada
desert
and
months
of
dress
rehearsals
in
the
Persian
Gulf
had
given
way
to
the
real
thing.
By
the
time
the
war
was
over,
43
days
later,
the
F-l
17A
Stealth
fighter
would
have
amassed
an
incredible
record,
by any
military
standards.
In the
first
few
days
of
the
war,
the
F-l
17A was
used
to
destroy
an
estimated
95
percent
of
every
pri-
mary
Desert
Storm
target
in
the
Iraqi
capital.
The
plane
was
the
only
manned
aircraft
to
attack
Baghdad,
joining
the
Tomahawk
missile
in
knocking
out
selec-
tive
key
targets
in
a
city
laced
with
missile
and
anti-
aircraft
batteries.
machine.
America's
first
addam
Hussein
was
micro-chip
war
had
begun
and
learning
the
hard
way
that
Heading
out
for
another
night
of
action
in
the
Gulf.

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