January 1991
Gulf Sanctions Enforcement
Coalition ships monitor and divert prohibited maritime trade.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Persian Gulf in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Coalition ships monitor and divert prohibited maritime trade.
Directs naval interception operations enforcing sanctions against Iraq.
Fogarty directs multinational enforcement of United Nations sanctions against Iraqi shipping.
Arthur commands carrier, surface, amphibious and mine-warfare forces supporting Desert Storm.
Directs US naval forces supporting the coalition campaign.
Arthur employs six aircraft carriers supporting strikes from the Gulf and Red Sea.
Coalition forces capture prisoners from occupied oil platforms.
Coalition naval aircraft destroy or disable much of Iraq's fleet fleeing toward Iran.
Iraqi minefields complicate naval support for the ground offensive.
Directs mine-clearing operations near the Kuwaiti coast.
Arthur directs damage control and continued operations after two ships strike Iraqi mines.
Maintains a credible threat of amphibious assault on Kuwait.
The deception fixes Iraqi forces along the coast.
Provenance
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