他们! The United States was much more concerned with protecting Iraqi oil from attacks by Iran as it was shipped through the Persian Gulf. In 1987, an Iraqi Exocet missile hit an American destroyer, the USS Stark, in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 crewmen. Incredibly, the United States excus...
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The terrorist attack on the USS Cole on 12 October 2000 was remarkably similar to the 1987 attack on the USS Stark. This article discusses the psychosocial consequences of the attacks on the families and crews of the ships and the community response of the Navy to the attacks, particularly ...
The United States was still smarting from the humiliation it had received when a lone Iraqi pilot (later, it is thought, executed after being repatriated) successfully attacked the USS Stark. Now it warned that it would use force, if necessary, to protect itself and its Gulf State friends ...
Inside the Danger Zone The U.S. Military in the Persian Gulf 1987-88 By Harold Lee Wise Naval Institute Press (2007) ISBN 978-1-59114-970-5 From the Iraqi attack on the USSStarkto Iranian mine fields to Revolutionary Guard gunboats, the 1987-88 Persian Gulf was a place of shadowy dan...
2,018.745 — (SSBN-617) Ingalls Shipbuilding USS Stark (FFG-31) REP 28,700,000 8/88 USS Scamp & two DEACT — 87-88 USS Wisconsin MOD 221,762,170 10/88 other subs (BB-64) Robert E. Derecktor USS Connole ROH 2,500,000 — USS Mobile Bay PSA 17,500,000 2/88 (FFG-12) (CG...
The USS Stark incident occurred during the Iran–Iraq War on 17 May 1987 in Persian Gulf , when an Iraqi jet aircraft fired two Exocet missiles at the U.S. frigate USS Stark. A total of 37 United States Navy personnel were killed or later died as a result of the attack, and 21 we...
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Palmer's Guardians of the Gulf: A History of America's Expanding Role in the Persian Gulf: 1833–1992 , Randy Edwards and Jeffrey Levinson's Missile Inbound: The Attack on the Stark in the Persian Gulf , and David C. Crist's 1998 dissertation, "Operation Earnest Will, The United States...