The biggest airlift campaign in history wasn’t always pretty. But it worked. It was like picking up the population of a mid-size American city—Atlanta, Kansas City, Sacramento—and moving it halfway around the world. More than a half million people, vehicles,...
Torrejon Air Base
How a rogue planning cell engineered the most decisive air war in modern history.
In commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of Operation Desert Storm, Air Force Magazine is posting daily recollections from the six-week war, which expelled Iraq from occupied Kuwait.