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    <title>America's battalion</title>
    <subTitle>Marines in the first Gulf war</subTitle>
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    <publisher>University of Alabama Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2005</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xiii, 236 p. : ill.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>The alert -- India Company leads the way -- Saudi Arabia: the warehouses -- Cement ridge -- The chemical threat -- Holidays -- Al Mishab: working with the Arabs -- The air war starts -- Rockets -- Marines in Khafji -- Cross-training: another step in the relationship -- The first American ground action: the artillery raids -- The alarms go off -- The battle for Khafji -- With the recon teams in the city -- Melissa and friends -- Khafji retaken -- Movement west to attack position -- Moving up to the minefields -- The breach -- Prisoners -- Kuwait International Airport -- Yellow ribbons -- Parting shots -- The years after.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Otto J. Lehrack.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-231) and index.</note>
  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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      <namePart>Marine Corps.</namePart>
      <namePart>Marine Division, 3rd.</namePart>
      <namePart>Battalion, 3rd</namePart>
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    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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    <topic>Persian Gulf War, 1991</topic>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
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    <topic>Khafji, Battle of, Ra�s al-Khafj�i, Saudi Arabia, 1991</topic>
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