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- AV-8's FLYING OFF THE USS NASSAU MARK THE FIRST USE OF THESE

  AIRCRAFT IN COMBAT FROM `A SEA BASED PLATFORM.


GROUND OPERATIONS

24 FEBRUARy

- I MEF

  -- 0400C.   I MEF COMMENCED ATTACK IN ZONE TO SECURE OBJECTIVES

     ALPHA AND BRAVO.   I MEF CLEARED SECOND OBSTACLE BELT 1311C.

     OBJECTIVE ALPHA WAS SECURED 1747C.

  -- iSOOC.   5TH MEB COMMENCED OFF LOADING AT RAL AL MISHAB.


- XVIII CORPS

  -- 0530C.   FRENCH SIXTH DIVISION AND 82D ABN DIV COMMENCED ATTACK

     IN SECTOR TO SECURE OBJ ROCHAMBEAU AND OBJ WHITE.   ROCHAMBEAU

     SECURED AT 1505C.

  -- 0747C.   101ST ACR, 1ST ARMOR DIV, 3RD ARMOR, COMMENCED MAIN

     ATTACK TO SEIZE OBJECTIVES PURPLE AND COLLINS


- COALITION FORCES

  -- 0800C.   JFC-EAST COMMENCED BREACHING OPERATIONS

  -- ilooC.   JFC-EAST PASSED THRU FIRST OBSTACLE BELT

  -- 2140C.   JFC-EAST SECURED OBJECTIVE B.

  -- 1830C.   JFC-NORTH BEGAN DIGGING IN VICINITY FIRST OBSTACLE

     BELT.


- CASUALTY REPORT

  -- I MEF CAPTURED 8,000 (+)  EPW'S; ARCENT 4,000 (+) EPW1S

  -- I MEF CASUALTIES:   4 KIA, 12 WIA.  ARCENT:  1 KIA.


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(INFoRMATIo~ CURRENT AS OF 27 FEB 1991)

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