Aerial Bombing
At the time of invasion, Allied aircraft were making bombing runs on Baghdad at the rate of 1,000 sorties a day, most of them aimed at the Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard. U.S. planes also dropped about 200,000 leaflets warning civilians to stay in their homes. An American Black Hawk helicopter was shot down near Karbala, and a United States Navy F/A-18C Hornet was shot down near Baghdad.
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