Do you know who or how the dead Iraqi soldiers were cleared out ? Did the Allies gather up bodies in body bags and put in a huge mass grave in desert or just how was that type stuff handled in a war like this where thousands of bodies were everywhere ? just curious how that would have been handled in a situation like this//// thanks for your service btw ........
I can attest Highway 8 was much worse prior to the footage. Decomposing bodies that were hanging out of the vehicles, or bodies that were burnt beyond recognition. 33 years later I can still smell it.
They sterilized it pretty good for the delicate ones who can't handle reality or to know history. It distorts the truth even more than it already is. Leaves the impression everyone just abandoned everything and it's just another big junkyard in the desert.
All those vehicles were being driven by a person, usually with others in the vehicle. All were insta-microwaved, insta-boiled from within. Just like at Dresden -- all clothing and hair intact, but flesh charred. Gone within milliseconds by high-energy bursts. Paradise Cali and other places in US have same telltale evidence.
Uncensored vids show alot of deceased. Inumerable bodies all over, looks alot like napalm atack, some whole, many in pieces. I'm certain it was everything thrown at them frop apache's to A-10's to fighter-bomber jets. Total devastation, if someone described it to you, you still couldn't conceive it.
My dad served in Desert Storm. He was a combat engineer and had to help clear the highway of death. He never talks about it and I can understand why. When the 2nd Iraq war broke out I was in the Army and ended up being deployed during the first rotation into country. And the second rotation and later the 4th rotation in. I did 3 total rotations in Iraq. I was a Bradley mechanic and recovery operator. I now know why he never talks about it.
I was part of the recce group for 7th armd brigade (desert rats) and was one of the first ground troops to reach the highway, what we witnessed and experienced is almost indescribable. I remember like it was yesterday and even when watching this video I could even smell it.
Do you know who or how the dead Iraqi soldiers were cleared out ? Did the Allies gather up bodies in body bags and put in a huge mass grave in desert or just how was that type stuff handled in a war like this where thousands of bodies were everywhere ? just curious how that would have been handled in a situation like this//// thanks for your service btw ........
@@fluff2001 My units task was to push on down the highway and clear out any hostiles(of which there was none), we dealt with some injured and gave water to survivors and tried to give instructions for them to help their wounded and wait for our main body close behind, the highway was then sealed off pretty quickly by Military police, I believe specialist teams such as engineers and Kuwaiti forces did the gruesome task of clearing but what happened to the bodies I did not witness. There was an issue with dogs gone wild and rabid, orders were given to shoot them for obvious reasons.
All cleanly sanitised footage. A lot of the footage and photos the media showed at that time was before they had buried all the bodies. Some of it was enough to give you nightmares. Nowadays, there's no way you can show those kinds of things without someone censoring it.
It’s all freely available on the internet uncensored though. Look at Ukraine, both sides have individual soldiers posting things no news network would air. We don’t need news networks anymore. Most people (in the west anyway) are aware of the potential for bias, manipulation and misinformation, thus seek out the truth on their own.
...oh absolutely, they blur out logos on T-shirts and someone with a shiner on their eye from a grade school fist fight. For this aptly titled Highway of Death the entire screen would get blurred. It might have made good strategic sense, to Bush the Elder, Schwarzkopf and his commanders in 1991 to massacre several divisions worth of souls, defeated and retreating after a complete rout. But with over 30 years of hindsight, to me it is still one of the most questionable orders ever issued by an American commander, especially one who had already achieved almost complete victory.
@@robertmaybeth3434 True. It was a route, broken men who were no threat anymore trying desperately to get back home alive to their families. But, did we know that? I once had a conversation with a guy who had served as a commanding officer in the US army during WW2. I remember him telling me how he ordered the heavy shelling of German troops (I'm half German) even when it was clear they had lost their commander, were routed, disorganised, had no heavy weapons and were of no threat. He told me, in hindsight he regretted the order, but at the time he had no other option as long as he didn't know what the enemy was up to. We're all geniuses in hindsight.
@@robertmaybeth3434 Someone knew at the time, even in 1991 the signals intercept and electronic warfare capabilities were more than enough to get an adequate picture of the battlespace and get see was being pushed down to the Iraqi line units. Do I know this for fact? No, but it is absolutely a reasonable assumption based off of known capabilities. My opinion the order was given in a strategic sense, just not the one that was sold to the military and public. This one event reshaped the entire power balance in the middle east, that was the intent imo.
its still very bizarre to me seeing older american-made trucks and cars in war-torn places like Iraq. I just cant imagine seeing these classic trucks being shot up and beat to hell.
My dad cleaned up the highway of death after the war... He never fully recovered from it. He described a moment he ate and MRE near a few dead bodies, like the scene from Jarhead. It seemed to never leave him.
I was 19 when they locked us into the Armory. We were geared up and ready for the call. But instead,we got called down from alert. It was kind of a let down at the time. But I'm 53 now and thank God I DIDNT get to go
It's called going on alert for possible deployment. We were locked down for two days prior to deployment. We just stocked our rooms with beer, and waited.
Reminds me of the Battle of The Falaise Pocket during the Normandy Campaign. Same thing basically. The Germans caught hell from allied forces on their retreat from Normandy. Pure carnage. The Germans lost thousands of men and equipment during their retreat.
Wise comparison. It has crossed my mind before. Learned about the Falaise Pocket on Battleplan (Vintage War Strategy Series). General Patton was furious 🤬 He despised General Montgomery with a passion.
Strange to think, all these guys are in their 50s now. All the Vietnam vets are the old timers now and there are hardly any ww2 or korean vets alive. I was born in 84 so i grew up around ww2, korean, vietnam, gulf war vets. Now me and all my friends and gwot vets are in our late 30s and early 40s. Where the hell does all the time go?
I was born in 1960. Graduated high school in 78, the draft ended in early 70s. (72?) I joined army ROTC in college in 1980, just 5 years after the last helo lift off Saigon. My ROTC instructors were Vietnam vets, two 5th SF and 1 3rd SF cadre. Wore my uniform once on campus and learned never to do it again. Carried my uniform to class in a backpack and changed in the restroom. No need to draw cat calls and stuff thrown at us. I was still issued a 1911 .45 when I went on active duty, wore a steel pot, but at least had BDU cammies. Now I'm retired and drawing social security. Retired old coot.
My neighbors son was in Kuwait at that time and saw all those charred bodies before it was cleaned up by other units! Most personal items in cars and trucks were stolen from the homes in Kuwait. My kid brother was stationed in Germany and miss action by mere hours when it was all over! Lucky him.
One of my medic colleagues led a team clearing bodies and doing grave registration work on a part of that road. To say it haunts him is an understatement.
A lot of that stuff that you're seeing everywhere on the ground is mainly stuff that they robbed from Kuwait during The Invasion and we're trying to bring it back to Iraq including a lot of the civilian vehicles where is stolen and filled with loot
@@cupriferouscatalyst3708 excuse me you know Iraq invaded Kuwait right and a coalition stop Iraq and chase them back home and destroying them in the process we wouldn't have been there if Saddam would have stayed in his own country
Myself and a few others 'liberated' the 5 Fd Sqn RE flag at 1.03 from the SHQ tent whilst we were in Al Jubial and took it into Kuwait. I was a full screw at the time and we snook into the SHQ tent when the Officers, SSM and SNCO's were asleep and 'libertated' the flag to take with us as my section was getting attached to 52 Constr Sqn RE (it may have been 53 Sqn - I can't remember now) and were moving to Kuwait City. I recognise Stotty and Joe Cullen in the clip. I'm in there somewhere. Never thought I'd see this footage and can't remember there being a film crew there.
You could could be driving out in the middle of the desert and randomly run across smaller versions of this, though usually without the civilian vehicles. It was just crazy. I remember in particular going past a small cluster of buildings in NW Kuwait and they were just shattered; pieces littered all over the sand. No idea what it had been, just that it wasn't any longer. Vehicles that were burnt with parts, garbage and unexploded ordnance lying around in a circle scorched on the sand. The worst part was the smell of burning diesel mixed with bodies. It's something I don't think I'll ever forget.
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for globalist oligarchs. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket , a short book and speeches written in 1935.
Driving a civilian car and wearing civilian clothing doesn't always make you a civilian, especially in a war. It just makes you a violator of the Geneva convention. The vast majority of the people killed were Iraqi military retreating with loot they stole.
_"Civilians"_ fleeing to Iraq clearly were not of Kuwaiti origin - unless collaborators to war crimes. Thus as you alluded to those caught on the highway represented = those who following the invasion streamed into Kuwait to brutalize its' people and steal anything not nailed down.
Anyone else remember going into the film processing shops and the shopkeepers would always try to sell you on buying the picture pack from the Highway of Death? I always wondered who actually took those photos.
1st Armored division here. We rolled right up The Highway of Death as the Cease fire was called. I was a Dismount Team Leader on the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Bamburg, Germany 88-91, Seems like it was just Yesterday. 30 plus years ago. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I was there with 1st Armored Division from Germany. Served with 2 Bn. 1st Artillery. Drove through there coming out of Iraq and going back into Saudi Arabia.
I have been to the highway of death while training in Kuwait as a marine we drove all day through the carnage of destruction and still end was nowhere in sight! It was just lots of destruction!
Saddam after not achieving anything out of the Iran-Iraq War was desperate to humiliate another country, which turned out to be Kuwait. Iraqi Military High Command did not know how to use its airforce properly, which led to a coalition cakewalk into Kuwait. Not much resistance from the Special Republican and Republican Guards, who were withdrawn back into Basra to defend the Baathist regime's political power and foothold in the country. Only, the weakest formations of the Iraqi Regular Infantry troops, who were manning the posts inside Kuwait, were up against the coalition aka the Allies, that had superior GPS technology, stealth airpower, cruise missile-laden naval power, agile land forces, early warning systems, electronic warfare measures, and modern martial tactics, totally out manoeuvred the Occupying Iraqi Land Forces. This war changed the Geostrategic landscape in the Middle East, and ultimately, led to Saddam's downfall and disgrace.
My buddy was specialist out there. Showed us some 8mm videos… And after all this, Isis got formed. Wars out there are good for this planet every few decades, apparently.
What type of ordinance hit this convoy exactly? No craters or holes on the road, no fragmentation holes on the vehicles. Some vehicles are completely untouched while others are burned to a crisp. Where are the bodies? I’m having a hard time understanding what hit the convoy?
Thanks. I noticed the cluster bomb empty container that fell on that small pickup truck. Lol What happened to the dead bodies? Who picked them up or buried them?
the burning of oil wells as seen at arounf the 34 minute mark is the 3rd worst environmental catastrophic ever. The event is also potrayed in the movie Jardhead I believe
@@mikemcgee5950 Sure. How could you possibly have "seen" anything in Iraq? You have a UA-cam account with a playlist of 5 contemporary songs, no other content, and you allegedly started your account in 2013. You're probably a Google/Alphabet employee or with the feds. Go build you social media cred somewhere else.
Can't believe it's been more than 33 years since I was there. Served with the 1st Cavalry Division with the greatest of men. It all goes by in the blink of an eye literally.
The engines still running tho going nowhere, the personal items on the ground, what looks like real pearls stolen from a Kuwaiti home. But no people, no bodies at first. The aftermath of a fleeing, defeated army.
Where your buddy in that tanker didn't do nothing cuz my brother was in the tanks and he told me that by the time they arrived with the front line tanks that everyone was already dead because of the 40 days and 40 nights bombings that the non-stop 40 straight days of bombings by aerosoles so it was the war was already over
Hang on a minute?…wasn’t Jordan supposed to be neutral ? Because from a lot of the footage in this video the news is filming a lot of ammunition boxes the words Jordanian military “ written on them it looks like that Jordan was helping them after all…..well the western governments kept that quiet?! I’m surprised they are allowing this video to be made public??
Well it adds up because the King of Jordans wife is, from Gaza, a Palestinian, and Jordan basically supports Gaza and probably Hamas because they're definitely for Gaza when it comes to Israel. So these days it should not shock to see stuff like this. Who knows how long they've felt this way but these days Jordan is definitely against the "west". I mean, most of the world is, they just deal with us while they have to because I'm sure they're all waiting for the big wars to happen in the future when they get to harm the west. And so you know, it's all scripted anyway, by the elite evil ones who run the world and play all of us against each other like chess, it's all a game and part of the plan for them. All these wars are planned by them and some even have side agendas that most don't know about, secret stuff for the elite. But if you want a little insight research Albert Pike, Adam Weishupt, Albert Pikes books about the future wars, he "predicted", and these guys are masons and part of the N W O. It's all planned and part of their agendas. And yes, masonic is evil, pure satanic evil actually tied to lucifer. 33 is their famous number. Well it represents 1/3, which is 1/3 of the angels that fell to earth with lucifer, satan, and everything in DC when it was built has masonic signs everywhere and statues of idol gods etc. USA was not built on Christian foundation, it's a LIE, it's built on masonic, satanic, other godly worship like baphomet, baal, molech, Ra the sun god from egypt, etc. Anyway probably everything you think you know has been a lie and we were brainwashed from the beginning. And it's all spiritual, evil vs good. Including these wars. I've learned a lot over the years. Open your mind and doubt everything you've been taught and look for the signs and you'll awaken. Numbers , signs, colors, symbols of the evil are everywhere. 33, 666, 63, 36, purple, tiffany blue, yellow/gold, orange, black and white, black and red, evil looking goats head (baphomet), people using hand signs like the 1 eye and devils horns, it's everywhere and it's satan working through them to show who's at work at a given time or event, and shows who they're worshipping. Anyway just open your eyes and don't believe everything they tell us, like when they give a reason for why we're going to a certain war etc. There just might be more to it.
Too bad we don't have smellavision so everyone that wasn't there could get the full experience. You can't in your wildest imagination begin to under stand just how it smelled there and what it does to you psychologically. Makes me want to hurl just looking at it.
@@SuperiorByFarvery badly in terms of force projection and unsustainable losses. He’s fighting a war against a much weaker country and losing 300k soldiers and countless equipment that is hard to replace.
Every country in the Middle East has old war zones that never get cleaned up… The Middle East is just one big graveyard for where empires go to die… This place will never be peaceful the way Americans think of peace.. When one war ends, the next terrorist group gets rebuilt. In Afghanistan, all the equipment and bases that were left, just made the taliban stronger than it was before the war started. And our government is sending them millions of dollars every week….
Hard to believe that was so long ago. I remember finding these Iraqi soldiers killed underneath an overpass on that highway. They didn't stand a chance. Stormin Norman knew his stuff.
The last one was put out in November of that year. Most of them were put out by running the pipeline pumps (that go to the Persian Gulf to fill up oil tankers) in reverse with seawater. It was intentional by the fleeing Iraqi military.
@@stevek8it wasn't the Iraqis. It was the SAS. I know a couple guys who received the orders. Done to make the iraquis look bad, same again during Iraqi freedom.
اهل العراق هل انتم الآن في افضل حال افضل من حكم صدام حسين هل انت فرحين حينما ترون ثرواتكم الباطنية تحترق وتنهب البلد امريكا ان ايران هي مسؤلة على دخول امريكا على العراق يوجد بينكم خونااااااااا هل هذا ما تريدون الحق معها امريكا تغذو البلاد العربية لي اننا لا نحب بعض ولا نريد نصفي القلوب
@@slavikk6712 people are trying to make it seem like cuz they were leaving Kuwait they were not a threat anymore if that's the case then why were they still armed with tanks and small arms in order to make them surrender force was needed war is not pretty or Fair
That's strange, most of the Iraqi tanks and civilian vehicles look American made... Oh yeah, forgot our government gave them all their military equipment when they were fighting Iran... Makes sense... 14:46
no commentary, pure war scene, pure sound, pure action. Thanks for uploading.
You want to watch helmet footage from us English and Americans in Afghanistan. It's proper mental. ✌️
youve been playing cod too long...
Exactly
I remember driving down the highway at the time, sights and smells will live with me forever.
Did you smoke any hajies?
incredibly cringe comment @@juicyj3819
Do you know who or how the dead Iraqi soldiers were cleared out ? Did the Allies gather up bodies in body bags and put in a huge mass grave in desert or just how was that type stuff handled in a war like this where thousands of bodies were everywhere ? just curious how that would have been handled in a situation like this//// thanks for your service btw ........
The only smell that filled your nostrils Rob was probably your arse!!! (I'm allowed to say that as I had to sleep in the same room as him!!)
@@7275steve 🤭
I can attest Highway 8 was much worse prior to the footage. Decomposing bodies that were hanging out of the vehicles, or bodies that were burnt beyond recognition. 33 years later I can still smell it.
They sterilized it pretty good for the delicate ones who can't handle reality or to know history. It distorts the truth even more than it already is.
Leaves the impression everyone just abandoned everything and it's just another big junkyard in the desert.
All those vehicles were being driven by a person, usually with others in the vehicle. All were insta-microwaved, insta-boiled from within. Just like at Dresden -- all clothing and hair intact, but flesh charred. Gone within milliseconds by high-energy bursts. Paradise Cali and other places in US have same telltale evidence.
Did the coalition remove the burned and destroyed vehicles?
@@jamesmartin7282, I would imagine someone did. We didn't.
Yup. It was insane when we hit the first and last vehicles in the column. Rah!
The logistics of war is truly insane
It’s the essential branch that keeps armies strong.
Yes it is. The Army is extremely organized from top to bottom
@@PatriotsOfWash sarcasm?
"Soldiers win battles, logistics win wars"
Thats the insane part of war to you?
Thank you for posting this I’ve heard and read about this event but I’ve never seen proper good footage like this truly eye opening
You still have'nt seen anything, the real videos are not shown
@@raymondtorres-gy8uj soo,these are fake ones?please be more specific sir.some generation Z n' alpha viewers r here..
Uncensored vids show alot of deceased. Inumerable bodies all over, looks alot like napalm atack, some whole, many in pieces. I'm certain it was everything thrown at them frop apache's to A-10's to fighter-bomber jets. Total devastation, if someone described it to you, you still couldn't conceive it.
@@dananorth895 everything for the Petrodollar, shame
@@bojankordic6783Maybe just read the description of the video itself and you'll get a little insight instead of acting like a smartass.
My dad served in Desert Storm. He was a combat engineer and had to help clear the highway of death. He never talks about it and I can understand why.
When the 2nd Iraq war broke out I was in the Army and ended up being deployed during the first rotation into country. And the second rotation and later the 4th rotation in. I did 3 total rotations in Iraq. I was a Bradley mechanic and recovery operator. I now know why he never talks about it.
I did the road as well but with the Royal Engineers. Respect to you and your dad.
لماذا لم يتحدث
My dad was a Bradley commander I believe the 4th armored out of fort Sam Houston
You mention “4th rotation” but then say you did 3 rotations! You know ‘4’ comes after ‘3’, right? Lol
@@chrisemerson7743he means OIF IV. essentially 2006-2007.
I was part of the recce group for 7th armd brigade (desert rats) and was one of the first ground troops to reach the highway, what we witnessed and experienced is almost indescribable. I remember like it was yesterday and even when watching this video I could even smell it.
That road did not look like that when we got there as it was a bit more "untidy" to say the least.
You'll never forget that smell!
That is a fact.
@@davidrobinson8337
Do you know who or how the dead Iraqi soldiers were cleared out ? Did the Allies gather up bodies in body bags and put in a huge mass grave in desert or just how was that type stuff handled in a war like this where thousands of bodies were everywhere ? just curious how that would have been handled in a situation like this//// thanks for your service btw ........
@@fluff2001 My units task was to push on down the highway and clear out any hostiles(of which there was none), we dealt with some injured and gave water to survivors and tried to give instructions for them to help their wounded and wait for our main body close behind, the highway was then sealed off pretty quickly by Military police, I believe specialist teams such as engineers and Kuwaiti forces did the gruesome task of clearing but what happened to the bodies I did not witness.
There was an issue with dogs gone wild and rabid, orders were given to shoot them for obvious reasons.
Brother served in desert storm. So glad he survived😢❤
We lost maybe 145 to combat and another 100 or so to non-combat repated deaths only.
Proof?
I wish he didn't. He was a terrorist and invaded a country.
All cleanly sanitised footage. A lot of the footage and photos the media showed at that time was before they had buried all the bodies. Some of it was enough to give you nightmares. Nowadays, there's no way you can show those kinds of things without someone censoring it.
There's a difference though between political/opinion censorship and "we will no longer show burned baby corpses on national television" censorship.
It’s all freely available on the internet uncensored though. Look at Ukraine, both sides have individual soldiers posting things no news network would air.
We don’t need news networks anymore. Most people (in the west anyway) are aware of the potential for bias, manipulation and misinformation, thus seek out the truth on their own.
...oh absolutely, they blur out logos on T-shirts and someone with a shiner on their eye from a grade school fist fight. For this aptly titled Highway of Death the entire screen would get blurred.
It might have made good strategic sense, to Bush the Elder, Schwarzkopf and his commanders in 1991 to massacre several divisions worth of souls, defeated and retreating after a complete rout. But with over 30 years of hindsight, to me it is still one of the most questionable orders ever issued by an American commander, especially one who had already achieved almost complete victory.
@@robertmaybeth3434 True. It was a route, broken men who were no threat anymore trying desperately to get back home alive to their families.
But, did we know that? I once had a conversation with a guy who had served as a commanding officer in the US army during WW2. I remember him telling me how he ordered the heavy shelling of German troops (I'm half German) even when it was clear they had lost their commander, were routed, disorganised, had no heavy weapons and were of no threat. He told me, in hindsight he regretted the order, but at the time he had no other option as long as he didn't know what the enemy was up to.
We're all geniuses in hindsight.
@@robertmaybeth3434 Someone knew at the time, even in 1991 the signals intercept and electronic warfare capabilities were more than enough to get an adequate picture of the battlespace and get see was being pushed down to the Iraqi line units. Do I know this for fact? No, but it is absolutely a reasonable assumption based off of known capabilities. My opinion the order was given in a strategic sense, just not the one that was sold to the military and public. This one event reshaped the entire power balance in the middle east, that was the intent imo.
its still very bizarre to me seeing older american-made trucks and cars in war-torn places like Iraq. I just cant imagine seeing these classic trucks being shot up and beat to hell.
I thought the same thing and then realized it was 1991 after all !!
a lot of those Vehicles were stolen buy Iraqi military from Kuwait during The Invasion Kuwait had tons of American vehicles
If It was a Toyota Hilux, it would probably still start and run.
@@billdang3953 true Toyota makes some awesome cars
@@billdang3953 I bet most of those abandoned vehicles still run.
My dad cleaned up the highway of death after the war... He never fully recovered from it. He described a moment he ate and MRE near a few dead bodies, like the scene from Jarhead. It seemed to never leave him.
I was 19 when they locked us into the Armory. We were geared up and ready for the call. But instead,we got called down from alert. It was kind of a let down at the time. But I'm 53 now and thank God I DIDNT get to go
What do you mean that you were locked in the armoury? Why were you held prisoner or hostage?…and by whom????
It's called going on alert for possible deployment. We were locked down for two days prior to deployment. We just stocked our rooms with beer, and waited.
Reminds me of the Battle of The Falaise Pocket during the Normandy Campaign. Same thing basically. The Germans caught hell from allied forces on their retreat from Normandy. Pure carnage. The Germans lost thousands of men and equipment during their retreat.
Especially once the weather cleared and air support became available
Wise comparison. It has crossed my mind before. Learned about the Falaise Pocket on Battleplan (Vintage War Strategy Series). General Patton was furious 🤬 He despised General Montgomery with a passion.
Only, The Iraqi army was in full retreat when this happened
I took thought back to the German retreat from Normandy. The carnage at falaise gap
@richardcopeland-h5 it's from the retreat of Iraqi forces during the 1st Gulf War.
No wonder there was so much PTSD after this war. This is horrific.
It was after the second war.
The quality of this is unbelievable for 1991
Strange to think, all these guys are in their 50s now. All the Vietnam vets are the old timers now and there are hardly any ww2 or korean vets alive. I was born in 84 so i grew up around ww2, korean, vietnam, gulf war vets. Now me and all my friends and gwot vets are in our late 30s and early 40s. Where the hell does all the time go?
I was born in 1960. Graduated high school in 78, the draft ended in early 70s. (72?) I joined army ROTC in college in 1980, just 5 years after the last helo lift off Saigon. My ROTC instructors were Vietnam vets, two 5th SF and 1 3rd SF cadre. Wore my uniform once on campus and learned never to do it again. Carried my uniform to class in a backpack and changed in the restroom. No need to draw cat calls and stuff thrown at us. I was still issued a 1911 .45 when I went on active duty, wore a steel pot, but at least had BDU cammies. Now I'm retired and drawing social security. Retired old coot.
Time waits for no man
@@ms.annthrope415 good luck and life my friend
Into war, think about it....🫨🫨
My neighbors son was in Kuwait at that time and saw all those charred bodies before it was cleaned up by other units! Most personal items in cars and trucks were stolen from the homes in Kuwait. My kid brother was stationed in Germany and miss action by mere hours when it was all over! Lucky him.
One of my medic colleagues led a team clearing bodies and doing grave registration work on a part of that road. To say it haunts him is an understatement.
If there’s an Abrams then not to far behind is a couple of fuel trucks
Anyone watching this who served during this conflict, thank you so much for your service 🇬🇧❤️
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A lot of that stuff that you're seeing everywhere on the ground is mainly stuff that they robbed from Kuwait during The Invasion and we're trying to bring it back to Iraq including a lot of the civilian vehicles where is stolen and filled with loot
That was the whole reason they invaded Kuwait. Saddam needed to pay his army for fighting the Iranians for over a decade.
He also owed Kuwait a lot of money due to Kuwait being the main financier of the Iran and Iraq War.
Keep telling yourself that, invader.
@@cupriferouscatalyst3708 excuse me you know Iraq invaded Kuwait right and a coalition stop Iraq and chase them back home and destroying them in the process we wouldn't have been there if Saddam would have stayed in his own country
@@cupriferouscatalyst3708 Iraq was the invader.
I joined in 92’ and retired in 2020.
Congrats for making it thru
thanks for your service
Myself and a few others 'liberated' the 5 Fd Sqn RE flag at 1.03 from the SHQ tent whilst we were in Al Jubial and took it into Kuwait. I was a full screw at the time and we snook into the SHQ tent when the Officers, SSM and SNCO's were asleep and 'libertated' the flag to take with us as my section was getting attached to 52 Constr Sqn RE (it may have been 53 Sqn - I can't remember now) and were moving to Kuwait City. I recognise Stotty and Joe Cullen in the clip. I'm in there somewhere. Never thought I'd see this footage and can't remember there being a film crew there.
You could could be driving out in the middle of the desert and randomly run across smaller versions of this, though usually without the civilian vehicles. It was just crazy. I remember in particular going past a small cluster of buildings in NW Kuwait and they were just shattered; pieces littered all over the sand. No idea what it had been, just that it wasn't any longer. Vehicles that were burnt with parts, garbage and unexploded ordnance lying around in a circle scorched on the sand. The worst part was the smell of burning diesel mixed with bodies. It's something I don't think I'll ever forget.
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for globalist oligarchs. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket , a short book and speeches written in 1935.
Thank you for sharing
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It's bizarre to see a 80s chevy caprice next to a soviet zil-131.
Mad that all this carnage is still there with a new road that runs right by it
Driving a civilian car and wearing civilian clothing doesn't always make you a civilian, especially in a war. It just makes you a violator of the Geneva convention. The vast majority of the people killed were Iraqi military retreating with loot they stole.
Furniture right out of people's houses. Dishes and a dish strainer.They took everything . Everyday household items
_"Civilians"_ fleeing to Iraq clearly were not of Kuwaiti origin - unless collaborators to war crimes. Thus as you alluded to those caught on the highway represented = those who following the invasion streamed into Kuwait to brutalize its' people and steal anything not nailed down.
Anyone else remember going into the film processing shops and the shopkeepers would always try to sell you on buying the picture pack from the Highway of Death? I always wondered who actually took those photos.
It's quite eerie especially when the the card started singing we wish you a merry Xmas, that gave me chills.
1st Armored division here. We rolled right up The Highway of Death as the Cease fire was called. I was a Dismount Team Leader on the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Bamburg, Germany 88-91, Seems like it was just Yesterday. 30 plus years ago. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I was there with 1st Armored Division from Germany. Served with 2 Bn. 1st Artillery. Drove through there coming out of Iraq and going back into Saudi Arabia.
In the description it is stated that this digitised version is of the recordings of 23 years ago, that should be 33 surely!
Its the 2nd iraq war son...
No matter which generations' war it is, the carnage and devastation of war always seems familiar. Such is war......
I have been to the highway of death while training in Kuwait as a marine we drove all day through the carnage of destruction and still end was nowhere in sight! It was just lots of destruction!
15:40 Is that a MK-20 Rockeye outer shell saying Melissa? Crazy to see.
Apparently the Marines dropped the overwhelming majority of Rockeye's during Desert storm.
It most likely is a Rockeye.
THIS is how you fight a war! Hard to believe that people cried about what happened to these Iraqi troops on this highway of death.
beaten so badly the world still thinks it was a war crime.
@ and the “world” is full of idiots, who would complain about this even if they were the ones being saved by this great example of FAAFO!
Wonderful pictures, i think it is the best ones in the internet
Interesting to see the MTLB still running
Yeah, that’s crazy
Yeh, dunno how it made it without getting hit and taken out.
And a lot of soldiers got sick from those burn pits. I know someone who still suffering from it.
I was E-2 ,young,And ready for an adventure. Obviously of a potentially deadly kind. But in all my years since,I ended up with PTSD anyway.
Damn bro you good now?
Saddam after not achieving anything out of the Iran-Iraq War was desperate to humiliate another country, which turned out to be Kuwait.
Iraqi Military High Command did not know how to use its airforce properly, which led to a coalition cakewalk into Kuwait.
Not much resistance from the Special Republican and Republican Guards, who were withdrawn back into Basra to defend the Baathist regime's political power and foothold in the country.
Only, the weakest formations of the Iraqi Regular Infantry troops, who were manning the posts inside Kuwait, were up against the coalition aka the Allies, that had superior GPS technology, stealth airpower, cruise missile-laden naval power, agile land forces, early warning systems, electronic warfare measures, and modern martial tactics, totally out manoeuvred the Occupying Iraqi Land Forces.
This war changed the Geostrategic landscape in the Middle East, and ultimately, led to Saddam's downfall and disgrace.
Kuwait reneged on paying their committed portion of the Iran-Iraq war. Nobody mentions that. That was what triggered the invasion.
@supreme.wizard.fillum"Stole" what are you some Ba'athist? Cope your party is gone
My buddy was specialist out there. Showed us some 8mm videos… And after all this, Isis got formed. Wars out there are good for this planet every few decades, apparently.
incorrect. The regular Iraqi forces surrendered quickly. The Republican Guard fought to the death - at first. Then surrendered. I was there.
@@Mr_Bob_Loblaw Iraq shouldn't have violated their treaty and invaded Iran then, should they?
33 years ago.. already.
The smells were unbearable.
sensor fused weapons and 20MM rounds showcasing its ability to cause mass death
My Dad was active duty at this time & got orders to head over, however “Desert Storm” ended & he didn’t have to go thankfully
They don’t seem to make Americans like that any more
The picture of the girl praying 🙏 me and my brother bought the exact same picture for our mum inthe early eighties during Christmas time
worst yard sale ever.
What type of ordinance hit this convoy exactly? No craters or holes on the road, no fragmentation holes on the vehicles. Some vehicles are completely untouched while others are burned to a crisp. Where are the bodies? I’m having a hard time understanding what hit the convoy?
Incendiary rounds and cluster bombs
Thanks. I noticed the cluster bomb empty container that fell on that small pickup truck. Lol
What happened to the dead bodies? Who picked them up or buried them?
Warthogs?
@@dmeinhertzhagen8764 Numerous US Army units were tasked with that.
What kind? Yes.
I remember when this happened thinking how stoopid do ya have to be to take a vehicle when Stormin' Norman says he'll make you dead if you do.
my unit guarded a pow camp with capacity of 5000, we had 15000 in there at one time
1:54 that abrams smiling for the camera
Did i just saw my old Centurion at work in 1991 Iraq??
It was an upgraded Centurion with dozer blades and explosive reactive armors. More likely used by the engineer brigade
Interesting
See!…..and how was it yours ? It belonged to military
@@benconway9010 Ex commander Centurion ARV here
the burning of oil wells as seen at arounf the 34 minute mark is the 3rd worst environmental catastrophic ever. The event is also potrayed in the movie Jardhead I believe
You can see the abandoned stolen items that were obviously looted from Kuwaitis homes strewn across the ground. 😮😢
The quality is amazing. Betacam sp rip? I am shocked it looks so good.
Read the description.
@@xenophagia it doesn't say
I would say 16mm. The image is very clear.
@@SurnaturalM I don't think it's film I think it's off tape... I bet betacam
All those cars and tanks were still there in 2003
It truely was "SHOCK AND AWE". I'd say Way More SHOCK than awe...
I trust that viewers have noticed a lot of Saddam's military supplies came from Jordan.
Most of the stuff I saw came from france and germany
@@mikemcgee5950 Sure. How could you possibly have "seen" anything in Iraq? You have a UA-cam account with a playlist of 5 contemporary songs, no other content, and you allegedly started your account in 2013. You're probably a Google/Alphabet employee or with the feds. Go build you social media cred somewhere else.
Can't believe it's been more than 33 years since I was there. Served with the 1st Cavalry Division with the greatest of men. It all goes by in the blink of an eye literally.
That road went through the intersection of FAFO.
This is raw footage apparently. no commentary present.
this is interesting.
I have been scanning in my old photos. So others can see this
Got any of dead bodies?
The engines still running tho going nowhere, the personal items on the ground, what looks like real pearls stolen from a Kuwaiti home. But no people, no bodies at first. The aftermath of a fleeing, defeated army.
Lovely, people living in the moment
the greatest generation
I had a buddy who was a tanker, he brought back some pics that were rather …..” gruesome “
Where your buddy in that tanker didn't do nothing cuz my brother was in the tanks and he told me that by the time they arrived with the front line tanks that everyone was already dead because of the 40 days and 40 nights bombings that the non-stop 40 straight days of bombings by aerosoles so it was the war was already over
Hang on a minute?…wasn’t Jordan supposed to be neutral ? Because from a lot of the footage in this video the news is filming a lot of ammunition boxes the words Jordanian military “ written on them it looks like that Jordan was helping them after all…..well the western governments kept that quiet?! I’m surprised they are allowing this video to be made public??
Well it adds up because the King of Jordans wife is, from Gaza, a Palestinian, and Jordan basically supports Gaza and probably Hamas because they're definitely for Gaza when it comes to Israel. So these days it should not shock to see stuff like this. Who knows how long they've felt this way but these days Jordan is definitely against the "west". I mean, most of the world is, they just deal with us while they have to because I'm sure they're all waiting for the big wars to happen in the future when they get to harm the west. And so you know, it's all scripted anyway, by the elite evil ones who run the world and play all of us against each other like chess, it's all a game and part of the plan for them. All these wars are planned by them and some even have side agendas that most don't know about, secret stuff for the elite. But if you want a little insight research Albert Pike, Adam Weishupt, Albert Pikes books about the future wars, he "predicted", and these guys are masons and part of the N W O. It's all planned and part of their agendas. And yes, masonic is evil, pure satanic evil actually tied to lucifer. 33 is their famous number. Well it represents 1/3, which is 1/3 of the angels that fell to earth with lucifer, satan, and everything in DC when it was built has masonic signs everywhere and statues of idol gods etc.
USA was not built on Christian foundation, it's a LIE, it's built on masonic, satanic, other godly worship like baphomet, baal, molech, Ra the sun god from egypt, etc. Anyway probably everything you think you know has been a lie and we were brainwashed from the beginning. And it's all spiritual, evil vs good. Including these wars. I've learned a lot over the years. Open your mind and doubt everything you've been taught and look for the signs and you'll awaken. Numbers , signs, colors, symbols of the evil are everywhere. 33, 666, 63, 36, purple, tiffany blue, yellow/gold, orange, black and white, black and red, evil looking goats head (baphomet), people using hand signs like the 1 eye and devils horns, it's everywhere and it's satan working through them to show who's at work at a given time or event, and shows who they're worshipping. Anyway just open your eyes and don't believe everything they tell us, like when they give a reason for why we're going to a certain war etc. There just might be more to it.
I was there and saw a lot of ammo crates from Jordan. I was wondering the same thing too.
Ammo can be bought and then stored for years.
Friday 1st March 1991
Too bad we don't have smellavision so everyone that wasn't there could get the full experience. You can't in your wildest imagination begin to under stand just how it smelled there and what it does to you psychologically. Makes me want to hurl just looking at it.
Been looking for this for a while now.
17:14 what’s a 25 horse Johnson doing in the middle of the desert ? LOL
At 17:15 the 25 hp outboard might come in handy in the desert, never know when your camel may spring a major leak!
Kuwait fishing expedition.
Putin needs to watch this
You think he is losing???
Why
@matthewtaylor1697
I agree! He should watch it.
Putin has nukes! Irak didn't.
@@SuperiorByFarvery badly in terms of force projection and unsustainable losses. He’s fighting a war against a much weaker country and losing 300k soldiers and countless equipment that is hard to replace.
I have never seen this footage… I was in that exact area, seems like yesterday.
What an environmental disaster!
Every country in the Middle East has old war zones that never get cleaned up… The Middle East is just one big graveyard for where empires go to die… This place will never be peaceful the way Americans think of peace.. When one war ends, the next terrorist group gets rebuilt. In Afghanistan, all the equipment and bases that were left, just made the taliban stronger than it was before the war started. And our government is sending them millions of dollars every week….
If you are gonna show war footage. It should be shown as it is not a cleand up version..let the public see how horrible and senseless it really is
They cleaned that highway up before any footage was taken by media.
the news was so censored at the time
Posts someone who lives in a time of censorship.
@@mikethespike7579 lmao man you don’t know what oppression and censorship is. I bet you’re a yank.
are you crazy? so much has come out since.@@mikethespike7579
Remember watching Jeraldo get in trouble for drawing a line in the sand showing army force direction.
Hard to believe that was so long ago. I remember finding these Iraqi soldiers killed underneath an overpass on that highway. They didn't stand a chance. Stormin Norman knew his stuff.
Seeing the cows in the black smoke was killing me 😢
I was 11 when all that happened and was watching the news briefings on TV. I look at it today and it looks a scene out of WW2.
الله يرحمك يا مصطفى علي كريم ! 41:51
اغلبهم لم يموتوا هربوا
I was there!!! US Army 1st Infantry Division. THE Big Red One!!! I can still taste this footage
Can somebody explain to me why and how the oil wells are burning? Was this intentional or accidental?
absolutely intentional sabotage by the retreating Iraqi army
The last one was put out in November of that year. Most of them were put out by running the pipeline pumps (that go to the Persian Gulf to fill up oil tankers) in reverse with seawater. It was intentional by the fleeing Iraqi military.
Hey thank you for answering my question 😊 I guess much money was lost during this time bc of the burnings ...
@@stevek8it wasn't the Iraqis. It was the SAS. I know a couple guys who received the orders. Done to make the iraquis look bad, same again during Iraqi freedom.
I'll never forget the smell...ever.
I was there and in those Marine Corps Hueys, We were tasked with a photo recon of the area. it was total destruction. HMLA-369, Gunfighters
Its rained toxic oil for weeks..,
Charlie Company 1st Battalion 1st Marines. Member of Task Force 'Papa Bear' Ooh-Rah
The logistics of all that hardware & personnel must have been a nightmare .....fuel, ammo, food & water just to mention a few !
31:18 autographs anyone 😂
What a thing of beauty!
اهل العراق هل انتم الآن في افضل حال افضل من حكم صدام حسين
هل انت فرحين حينما ترون ثرواتكم الباطنية تحترق وتنهب البلد امريكا
ان ايران هي مسؤلة على دخول امريكا على العراق يوجد بينكم خونااااااااا
هل هذا ما تريدون الحق معها امريكا تغذو البلاد العربية لي اننا لا نحب بعض ولا نريد نصفي القلوب
A boat motor on top of a tank. Is this war footage or the aftermath of an Alabama tornado? In all seriousness though,amazing footage!
I didn’t see one body. Not one??? It’s maybe cut really bad or maybe other footage.
No blood spots either
Mainly cuz a lot of them took off on foot or Surrender thousands of Iraqi soldiers were surrendering in giant groups
@@brianv1988 smart move by them
@@slavikk6712 people are trying to make it seem like cuz they were leaving Kuwait they were not a threat anymore if that's the case then why were they still armed with tanks and small arms in order to make them surrender force was needed war is not pretty or Fair
its cause they buried the bodies, some of the other comments here attest to that
That's a shame all those civilians trying to get away did anybody spot the school bus
Those vehicles were stolen by Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait. The convoy was Iraq soldiers
That's strange, most of the Iraqi tanks and civilian vehicles look American made... Oh yeah, forgot our government gave them all their military equipment when they were fighting Iran... Makes sense... 14:46
Where do you see Iraqi American-made tanks? The Iraqi military was like 95% Soviet equipment. And those civilian cars were stolen from Kuwait.
@@AsymmetricalCrimes In Gulf War 2 many tanks were old Chinese.
Erm I’m a kuwait and my dad was six years old when he experience this and my auntie was 10 years old. I’m still shocked…
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