History Channel Documentaries

Minute by Minute: The Gulf War (2007x290)

Air date: Oct 30, 2007

They came in the dead of night. Iraqi troops and tanks - hundreds of them - pouring over the desert border. Americans awoke to the news on August 2nd, 1990: Iraq had invaded Kuwait. The White House responded quickly. By January 17th, 1991, eight F-15 fighter jets swept through the Baghdad sky, raining missiles upon the city below. Operation Desert Storm had begun. Within three days, the allied coalition controlled the Iraqi sky. Six days after the invasion of Kuwait, President Bush announced the deployment of 100 thousand troops to the Persian Gulf. MINUTE BY MINUTE: THE GULF WAR includes interviews with soldiers from these troops. Hear the story of Major General Barry McCaffrey, leader of the Twenty Fourth Infantry, one of the first units to arrive in the Middle East. Daniel Pons, father, husband, teacher and Army Lab Specialist who was called to duty while teaching a middle school math class. These first person accounts during and after the Persian Gulf War lend a unique and personal look into a battle that has continued to shape current events and American life.