7S                                 U.S. MARINES IN THE PERSIAN GULF, 1990-1991


A Direct Support Command armored D-7 Caterpillar was disabled by a mine while attempting to
widen Lane Blue 3 of the 2d Marine Division's breach. The division's greatest equipment losses
occurred during the breaching operation and included seven M6O and one MiAl tanks equipped
with track-width mine plows, plus three assault amphibious vehicles.

AN/TPQ-36 counterbattery radar of the 11th Marines, killing one Marine and
wounding another.
   At 0530, 2d Marine Division, reinforced by the U.S. Army Tiger Brigade,
commenced the I MEF main attack, penetrating between the Umm Gudair
(South) and Al Manaqish oilfields about 25 kilometers northwest of the 1st
Marine Division assault.  The 6th  Marines,     under command     of Colonel
Lawrence H. Livingston, conducted the division's breaching assault which
punched through the middle of the Iraqi 14th Infantry Division.     Later its
flanking units, Tiger Brigade and 8th Marines, penetrated seams between the 7th
and  14th Infantry Divisions and the 14th and 29th Divisions respectively.
During the night, most of the 10th Marines under command of Colonel Leslie
M. Palm, crossed the Berm and set up their M198 howitzers on both sides of
the routes to the first obstacle belt to support breaching operations. Reinforcing
the division's artillery were 10 M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems from
Tiger Brigade.
   The division's breaching plan was elegantly simple, a factor that helped
overcome the lack of time for planning and training.  Major General Keys and
his staff used an amphibious assault as a model, even though this particular
assault was going to be conducted on land. Combat engineers laid out six lanes


   ~Thc Marine was Sgt A. A. Pack of 1st MarDiv.