First Combat Use of B-1B in Operation Desert Fox

Dec. 16, 1998

In Operation Desert Fox, a limited four-day operation, American and British aircraft and US air- and sea-launched cruise missiles strike some 100 targets in Iraq. It would be the first combat use of the B-1B bomber.

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