Afghan Air Strikes

Air strikes have been essential to the successes of Operation Enduring Freedom since day one.

October 7, 2001:
50 missiles launch into Afghanistan from positions in the Arabian Sea. Simultaneously, 25 strike aircraft are deployed from the USS Enterprise and the USS Carl Vinson, and 15 B-1 and B-2 bombers are unleashed out of the US base Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Long-distance B-2s blast off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.

October 8, 2001:
At 9:30 p.m. local time, 10 B-2 stealth planes and B-1 bombers and 10 strike aircraft launch from a British air base in the Indian Ocean. The 20 US bombers fly over the north and south ends of Afghanistan. Four bombs are dropped in Kabul alone, where an airport and a television transmission post are destroyed.

October 9, 2001:
Nighttime strikes concentrate on the airport in Herat to the North, and Taliban strongholds in Kandahar, to the south. The skies are filled with US bombers: some seeking specific targets, others are hunting for �targets of opportunity.� The daylight raids center around Kandahar, and the home of Taliban Supreme Leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. Omar�s residence is struck by a US missile, the third time his house has been targeted in as many days.

October 18, 2001:
Taliban military facilities in Kabul suffer bombings, as do suspected Taliban facilities in Kandahar. Several guerrilla training camps in Jalalabad are destroyed. US-deployed land-based fighter bombers, F15-Es, are deployed for the first time, screaming into Afghanistan from their bases in the Persian Gulf. Two other specialized aircraft are called to duty: the RQ-1 Predator, an unmanned reconnaissance plane that carries anti-tank missiles, and the AC-130, a four-engine gunship that fires 1,800 rounds per minute.

November 25, 2001:
The punishing and unpredictable air raids have sufficiently crippled the travel and communication lines of the Taliban. But additional air strikes are called in when captured Taliban inmates in Mazar-i-Sharif stage a six-day uprising. Bombings begin, and just 83 Taliban will survive by hiding in basements. More than 300 others are killed in the attacks.

December 10, 2001:
The aerial assault on al Qaeda cave complexes begins in the early morning. The battle zone, a mountain range near Jalalabad near the village of Tora Bora, is a mountainous region that boasts 13,000- foot peaks. Hoping Osama bin Laden has sought refuge in the underground network of caves, the US military employs bombs capable of burrowing through 20 feet of rock before detonating. Other weapons can pinpoint and seal off cave entrances upon detonation. The 15,000 pound Daisycutter is also employed.

January 3, 2002:
At 10:00 a.m., air strikes begin on an extensive al Qaeda leadership compound close to the Pakistani border. The bombing targeted the complex of base camps, training facilities, and an underground cave network.

March 3, 2002:
US aircraft drop 270 bombs on Taliban and al Qaeda refuges in a mountainous region. Operation Anaconda now involves more than 1,500 soldiers from the US, Afghanistan, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Germany, France and Norway, and devastating air strikes continue to clear the way for the Coalition on the ground to get their man.

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