A retired Air Force pilot, who dropped bombs on Iraq during the opening night of the 'shock and awe' campaign 20 years ago, talks with a woman who experienced that night as a teenager in Baghdad.
Retired U.S. Air Force pilot Steve Ankerstar and former Baghdad resident Shaymaa Khalil joined NPR's Morning Edition to discuss their memories of the 'shock and awe' bombing campaign that began the Iraq war.Courtesy of Shayma Khalil and Steve Ankerstar.
Ankerstar, then a Major in the U.S. Air Force, was in his Nighthawk stealth fighter jet, on his way to drop bombs on two different targets. Shaymaa Khalil, a teenager at the time who was living in Baghdad, will never forget that night either.
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