Celebrate Somalia Veterans - Spinelli's Pizza 4th St Downtown

Name: Celebrate Somalia Veterans - Spinelli's Pizza 4th St Downtown
Start: 2024-08-18T15:00:00-04:00
Location: 574 S 4th St, Louisville, KY 40202-2504, United States

Schedule

Sun Aug 18 2024 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

574 S 4th St, Louisville, KY 40202-2504, United States | Louisville, KY

Aug 18 Sun Celebrate Somalia Veterans
Operation Provide Comfort – August 1992
SPINELLI'S PIZZERIA - DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE * 4TH & CHESTNUT
Free Parking Sunday * 4th Street LIVE
Cozy Open Seating Friendly Service Warm Atmosphere and Great Food
Meet Veterans of your Era!
Operation Provide Comfort was a humanitarian relief mission that began in August 1992, when the United States started sending food aid to Somalia. The operation was part of the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM), which was created by the UN Security Council in April 1992 to address a crisis in the country. However, fighting between warlords made it difficult to deliver aid to those who needed it most.
When an American-led international coalition bombed Iraq and drove the forces of Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in 1991, it weakened his power. Rebellious Kurds in northern Iraq, whom Hussein had brutally suppressed with chemical weapons three years earlier, launched a new uprising in early March. When Iraqi government troops defeated the rebellion a month later, threatening to repeat the massacres of the past, more than a million Kurds fled to Iran and Turkey. Hundreds of thousands more gathered on cold mountain slopes on the Iraqi-Turkish border. Lacking food, clean water, clothing, blankets, medical supplies and shelter, the refugees suffered enormous mortality rates
In August 1992, the United States established another nofly zone, this time in southern Iraq south of 32° N, to discourage renewed Iraqi military activity near Kuwait (Operation SOUTHERN WATCH). It complemented the PROVIDE COMFORT no-fly zone north of 36° N. Iraqi forces tested the no-fly zones in both south and north by sending fighters into them in December 1992 and January 1993 . On December 27, 1992, F-16 pilot Lt. Col. Gary L. North, USAF, shot down an Iraqi MiG-25 in the southern zone . Less than a month later, on January 17, 1993, another F-16 pilot, Lt. Craig D. Stevenson, USAF, shot down an Iraqi MIG-29 in the north. Those were the only aerial victories of Operation PROVIDE COMFORT.