Tuskers - An Armor Battalion in the Gulf War
John Prigent
Tuskers, An Armor Battalion In The Gulf War, by David S Pierson.
Darlington Productions, ISBN 0-96487993-5-2.
This is the history of 4/64 Armored Regiment not just in the ground fighting but during
the mobilisation, travel to Saudi Arabia, planning and training stages. Mr Pierson was the
Battalin S2, or intelligence officer, and he writes an engrossing story. He really shows
the reader what it felt like to sit waiting for the Iraqi attack into Saudi Arabia which
never came as well as to face the unknown in combat. Task Force Tusker, built around the
Battalion, took part in the outflanking move which cut the Basra Road so perhaps saw less
combat at that stage than the direct assault units which moved east in Kuwait itself.
Nevertheless it was Tusker which detroyed the Republican Guard Hammuarbi Division and
elements of several others when they broke the ceasefire and tried to break out from
Basra, and even the Intelligence Officer saw his share of fighting. No student of the Gulf
War should miss this one.
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