Battle for Jalibah Airfield

Battle for Jalibah Airfield
	Part of the Gulf War
	; A disabled Iraqi T-55 tank at the airfield on 2 March 1991
Date	27 February 1991
Location	Jalibah Southeast Air Base
Result	American victory
Belligerents
United States	Iraq
Casualties and losses
2 killed; 9 wounded; (1 wounded by hostile fire); 3 IFVs damaged	2,000 casualties; 31-40 tanks destroyed ; 80 AA guns destroyed; 20 aircraft shot down

The Battle for Jalibah Airfield took place when the U.S. 2nd Brigade, 24th Infantry Division successfully attacked and captured the heavily defended Jalibah Southeast Air Base military airfield in Iraq, located 80 miles west of Basra, on February 27, 1991 during the Gulf War.

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