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Meet the top MiGkilling aces of Operation Desert Storm
August 1990 Iraqi forces under the command of Saddam Hussein invaded the tiny emirate of Kuwait Within hours the Kuwaiti defenses collapsed under the onslaught of the Iraqi Army In response the US military led a coalition of thirtyfour nations in what became known as Operation Desert Storma violent air and ground campaign to eject the Iraqis from Kuwait At the tip of the spear were the men of the US Air Forces 58th Fighter Squadron
Mounted aboard their F15C fighter jets these young aviators took to the sky against the Iraqi Air Force Although confident in their capabilities these untested American pilots were flying into combat against the latestandgreatest of Sovietbuilt aircraft including the MiG29 Fulcrum
Despite the odds however the men of the 58th Fighter Squadron decimated the Iraqi Air Force in one engagement after another On the first day of the air war January 17 1991 Captain Jon JB Kelk claimed the first aerial victory of Desert Storm downing a MiG29 in combat In less than 30 days the 58th Fighter Squadron flew more than 1600 combat sorties and destroyed 16 Iraqi aircraft more than any other coalition air unit
Based on hours of interviews and archival research by author Mike Guardia this book reveals an intimate noholdsbarred account of modern aerial combatas told by the men who lived it
Skybreak is their story
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