European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 17, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 3 Turkey War in the Gulf in Ciurlik a a 2,600 sorties flown since Start of War reported by allies Mora than 70,0do sorties Horn 33 killed in action including 14 americans and 19 saudis. 29 americans listed As non combat deaths. An additional 105 americans listed As non combat deaths in operation desert shield before War. 49 missing in action including 28 americans 10 British one italian and 10 saudis. 12 prisoners of War including eight americans two British one italian and one kuwaiti it 33 Allied planes lost 25 in combat including 16 american six British one kuwaiti one italian and one saudi.  eight planes including six american one British and one saudi. Six american helicopters to non hostile causes. More than 1,081 iraqis taken prisoner 139. Iraqi planes and four helicopters destroyed. 147 planes flown to Iran. Reported by Iraq More than 180 Allied Craft downed. More than 20 Allied prisoners held. 1,147 civilians and 90 soldiers killed.750 civilians wounded. Allied bombs jolted Baghdad and other iraqi targets saturday. Iraq claimed British warplanes attacked an apartment building and a Market thursday in Al Falluca killing 130 civilians. British Tornado Jet fighters were believed to be aiming for two strategic Bridges Over the euphrates River. The . Central come said a Pilot was killed after his air Force f-16 fighter plane crashed saturday on the arabian Peninsula on return from a combat Mission. Iraq fired two scud missiles at Israel late saturday. Both hit the jewish state but there were no reports of injuries or damage. Earlier Iraq shot off a scud at saudi Arabia which broke up and fell harmlessly into the desert and the persian Gulf. Tens of thousands of marines have begun moving across Northern saudi Arabia in response to shifts in plans for possible ground combat against iraqi troops entrenched in  of marines shifting northward by Molly Moore the Washington Post with . Troops Northern saudi Arabia a tens of thousands of marines began moving across Northern saudi Arabia in response to shifts in plans for possible ground combat against iraqi troops entrenched in Kuwait according to military officials. A modern Day Wagon train rumbles northward across the saudi desert around the clock pushing the wares of ground combat closer to the. Kuwaiti and iraqi Borders trucks judging missiles tanks dangling with Rucksacks flatbed trucks hauling precariously balanced plywood latrines. Marine forces a. Some of which have already Moed several times in the past few weeks a Are shifting to new locations including a newly built Forward Supply base that will feed fuel and Arm most of the approximately 80,000 marines expected to move into Kuwait. A hopefully this is the next to the last move until we go Home, maj. Karen Schultz 40, assistant com a mandant of the marines combat Supply depot the corps largest such facility near the front lines. A we expect the next one to be Kuwait  the movement of marines has begun to rival the northward March of their More heavily armoured army hopefully this is the next _ to the last move until we go Home a maj. Karen Schultz counterparts which has been under Way for several weeks farther to the West. Officials said the War plans have been revised significantly in recent Days and Are expected to be readjusted again before any ground combat begins. Senior Marine and . Central come officials Are continuing to debate the details of a possible amphibious assault against the heavily defended kuwaiti snore line and have made no final decision on whether to take such action according to military authorities. Army Gen. Ii. Norman Schwarzkopf commander of Allied forces Flevy to a front line Marine base last week to Confer with senior Marine generals. Meanwhile armoured personnel carriers and amphibious attack vehicles churn the desert Sand in route to their new front line positions. The Long line of vehicles is obscured at times by sepia coloured Clouds of Sand that Rise into a sky already smudged with the Black smoke of burning kuwaiti Oil facilities farther North. A a. A. A Quot t a a a. A five ten trucks squat ammunition haulers and tanks bristling with Toothy mine breaching plows stretch from horizon to horizon oni ribbons of Roadway carved into the desert Sand. A a. Many Camps have become military ghost towns As troops abandon Canvas tents to the Dusty desert winds. Other posts such As the wartime Supply cities that feed the . War machine Haye loaded their menus of ammunition food and fuel onto trucks joining the convoys. The Stream of War Materiel seems virtually endless flatbed trucks with carefully positioned pallets of High explosive 155mm artillery shells Dusty fuel tankers and an assortment of Chunky tracked vehicles. Brightly coloured saudi buses which usually carry thousands of muslims on pilgrimages to the holy cities of islam haul marines to the front lines their rooftop Racks piled High with Dulles bags and sleeping bags. Less fortunate troops sit on the hard wooden benches of open aired military trucks their faces sheathed in scarves and rags in a Hutfle Effort to Block choking dust