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Bookmark or Share- Operation Earnest Will - WikipediaOperation Earnest Will (24 July 1987 – 26 September 1988) was an American military protection of Kuwaiti-owned tankers from Iranian attacks in 1987 and 1988, three years into the Tanker War phase of the Iran–Iraq War. [2]
- Operation Earnest Will - Bradley PenistonThe U.S. Navy prepared for the world’s largest maritime convoy operation since World War II. It was to be called Operation Earnest Will , and it would involve scores of U.S. warships. That summer, nearly a dozen Kuwaiti tankers were reflagged as U.S. vessels.
- Operation Earnest Will - GlobalSecurity.orgOperation Earnest Will. Iraq attacked Iran in September 1980, launching a war that would last eight years. By 1982, more than 100,000 people had died.
- Revisiting the Tanker War - War on the RocksThe surge of forces into the Persian Gulf assigned to commander, Middle East Force under Adm. Bernsen became Operation Earnest Will. Bernsen and his staff planned for the traditional naval mission of convoy escort.
- Remembering The 'Tanker War' Of The 1980s - NPRRUND ABDELFATAH, BYLINE: In 1987, the U.S. launched Operation Earnest Will, one of the largest naval operations since World War II. The goal was to protect the supply of oil moving through the...
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