MACGREGOR: At this point, we're three and a half days into the ground campaign.Ĭol. Where were we in the first Gulf War? Where were we at that point?Ĭol. RAZ: Douglas Macgregor, that day, February 26, 1991, your squadron had destroyed more than 90 tanks and left perhaps as many as 1,500 Iraqi Republican guardsmen dead.
Army Author, "Warrior's Rage: The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting"): Thank you. It's called "Warrior's Rage." And Douglas Macgregor is in the studio with me.Ĭolonel DOUGLAS MACGREGOR (Retired U.S. The man who led Cougar Squadron into battle was then-Major Douglas Macgregor. The unit at the tip of the spear was the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, better known as Cougar Squadron. It took place along a north-south gridline of a military map in the Iraqi desert. Army tank battle since World War II, and it's considered one of the Army's greatest post-war tactical victories. To military history buffs, the Battle of 73 Easting is legendary because it was the largest U.S. American Army squadron, about 1,100 men, nearly wiped out a brigade of elite Iraqi troops more than twice as large.
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