name of that big tank battle during the gulf war?

I opened the hatch gingerly and looked about. ‘It’s behind us.’ ‘What’s behind us?’ ‘Missile launches.’ They must be ours. I looked 360° through the commander’s episcopes – mini armoured glass periscopes fitted all the way around the commander’s crew position to offer a limited all round vision. We weren’t being hit, at the moment anyway.

‘What the f**k is going on?’ ‘Where’s it coming from?’ ‘Are we the target?’ Everyone was using their episcopes and gun sights, looking around frantically for the source of the artillery or whatever it was.

I had my helmet on and was back in the turret within seconds, slamming the hatch behind me. Then suddenly….Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Holy f**king hell! We were under attack. The blog will follow his work up to the war and then the war itself, day by day 25 years on.Ġ100hrs.

This blog is written from his diaries, notebooks and a tape recording he made during the war. It is 25 years since the 1991 Gulf War when British troops contributed (OP GRANBY) to the successful Allied operation which prevented Saddam’s invasion of Saudi Arabia (DESERT SHIELD) and then liberated Kuwait (DESERT STORM).Ĭapt Tim Purbrick commanded a Troop of Challenger Main Battle Tanks during the 1991 Gulf War.

Name of that big tank battle during the gulf war?