Battle of 73 Easting

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The Battle of 73 Easting was a decisive 1991 Gulf War tank engagement in which U.S.-led coalition armored forces destroyed elements of Iraq’s Republican Guard in a rapid, technologically superior clash in the Kuwaiti desert.

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