European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday a stars and stripes Maga Ine january 16, 1994 sleep was the furthest thing from capt. Dean Powell s mind Powell and three fellow Pitburg f-15 pilots were less than eight hours away from flying into Iraq to Battle Saddam Hussein s forces. Full of adrenalin and unable to sleep the four pilots settled into folding chairs on a wooden veranda they had built just outside their tent in the saudi arabian desert As he reflects Back on the events that unfolded three years ago monday one of Powell s most enduring memories is of the first wave of f-15c eagles taking off from Al Harjab. The four pilots watched the jets Fly off into the Midnight sky As they drank Coffee and listened on shortwave radio to Baghdad Betty drone on about the futility of their cause. Her nightly by Kevin Dougherty staff writer when darkness fell three years ago . Warplanes went up Spiel was delivered in ungrammatical English. It was very entertaining i might add Powell says of the radio program. We were grateful knowing that she just had a couple More hours of air Powell 31, of Anguilla miss., never heard Baghdad Betty s voice again. In the Early morning of Jan. 17, 1991, an Armada of coalition aircraft staged coordinated attacks throughout Iraq and Kuwait. The massive and relentless air assault signalled the end of Baghdad Betty s radio career and the beginning of operation desert storm designed to liberate Kuwait from Iraq. About 400 aircraft struck More than 100 targets in the first three hours of the air Campaign. By the end of the second Day coalition aircraft had flown 2,250 attack sorties. The Pace would continue unabated until Iraq quit for Good on feb. 28. The iraqis certainly lost the initiative in those first few Days says col. Bruce Wright who commanded continued on Page 4 \
