Day 12: 28 Jan 1991

28 January 1991 (Monday): DAY 12

GENERAL

AIR WAR:

v A 20 x F-111F Raid Package, led by Capt Matt Young / Capt Greg Chapman, attacked

Tallil Air Base (southeast Iraq) and made direct hits on its ammunition storage area

that resulted in the largest man-made, non-nuclear, explosion ever recorded on the

Defense Support Program's (DSP) missile warning satellite which threw smoke up to

over 30,000 feet. Only the first aircraft was able to drop its weapons.

v approximately 80 x Iraqi Aircraft have been flown into Iran

v Coalition Forces Announce that they have Air Supremacy

v 26 x kills in air combat reported to date

v USN send A-6 strikes after Iraqi shipping in Bubiyan Channel, at Umm Qasr,

and in Kuwaiti Harbors

v A Coast Guard VC-11A Gulfstream arrives with an interagency team to study the oil spill in the Gulf created by Saddam

F-117 HIGHLIGHTS (28Jan/Day 12):

v Day 12/Wave Three: 6 x F-117's from the 416th TFS

4 x F-117's from the 415th TFS

- Ammunition Storage Facilities at Ad Diwaniyah, Ash Shuaybah, and an Nasiriyah (attacked by the 415^{th TFS)}

- H-3 Airfield Shelters (by the 415th TFS)

- SAM Site at Ar Rutbah (by the 415th TFS)

- Specific targets at H-2 and H-3 Airfields (by the 416th TFS)

- targets at H-2/H-3 airfields were considered SCUD related

- Scored 16 hits with 20 PGM attempts (80%)

v Day 13/Wave One: 4 x F-117's from the 415th TFS

6 x F-117's from the 416th TFS

- Scored 15 hits with 16 PGM attempts (94%)

- takeoff during the evening of the 28th to hit targets on the 29th

- 2 x aircraft air aborted leaving 8 x F-117's to press the attack

- Missile & Communications Facilities in Bagdad, An Nashiriyah,

Ad Diwaniyah, and Ar Rutbah

- Hardened Aircraft Shelters at Rasheed Airfield

- The Presidential Grounds at Abu Ghurayb

v Day 13/Wave Two: 8 x F-117's from the 415th TFS

6 x F-117's from the 416th TFS

- takeoff during the evening of the 28th to hit targets on the 29th

- 1 x aircraft air aborted leaving 9 x F-117's to press the attack

- Scored 17 hits out of 24 PGM attempts (71%)

- The Republican Guard Barracks in Bagdad

- Chemical/Biological Warfare Research, Production, & Storage

facility at Salmon Pak

- 1 x SCUD Missile Facility

- 1 x Airfield at Al Taqaddum

- Ammunition Storage Facilities

- Iraqi Central Intelligence Headquarters in Bagdad

- Iraqi Security Service Headquarters

- Several Highway Bridges

- Target locations at Samawah, Bagdad, Al Tqaddum, An Nasiriyah, Fallijah,

Kirkuk, Al Basrah, Al Qurnah, Tirkit, Salmon Pak, & Karbala

KILLS:

v 1 x Kill recorded on McPeak's Briefing

v Iraq claims that coalition bombing has hurt captured fliers

v 1 x Unknown Aircraft reported downed by (1) F-15C

... Unverified until CENTCOM Awards Message

... No missile expenditure recorded by Raytheon or Pentagon

v 1 x MiG-23 Flogger downed by an F-15C from the 32nd TFS/32nd TFG

- 32nd TFS is out of Shoesterberg, NL

- Capt Donald S. Waltrous

- Call Sign: "Muddy" Watrous

- 79-0021 (one of the oldest F-15C's)

- stationed at Incirlik AB, Turkey with the 7440th TFW(P)

- barrier CAP over Eastern Iraq

- under AWACS control

- 3 x AIM-7's Bombed-Off due to bad maintenance

- pilot was wingman of Weapons Officer

- 1 x AIM-7 HIT and KILL

- Tail-On Day Shot

- this is the one Soesterberg Kill

- Kill verified by CENTCOM and Officially awarded by TAC

LOSSES:

v 1 x AV-8B Harrier from VMA-311 "Tomcats" out of Cherry Point MCAS

... BURNO 163518, "WL", side number 02, 13th US Combat Loss

... Capt Micheal C. Berryman, (28) of Cleveland, Oklahoma

... operated out of King Abdul Aziz Airfield

... became POW, 15th US airman, released 5 March 1991

... indications are that a switches-problem caused a 2nd pass

... captured and eventually sent to the "Bagdad Biltmore"

v Designation of several MIA's to POW's

... Lt Jeffrey N. Zaun

... LtCol Clifford M. Acre

... CWO Guy L. Hunter

SCUDS:

v 2 x SCUD's fired at Riyadh (intercepted) and Israel (fell in West Bank area)

Gulf War 1991 Chronology

Day 12: 28 Jan 1991