May 3, 1998
Nothing in canon for the day. Unofficially,
To conserve fuel, the 347th Strategic Missile Squadron halts patrols of its 21 MGM-134 Midgetman ICBM Hard Mobile Launchers, instead stationing each at a dispersal site within 10 miles of the squadron headquarters at Desert Rock airfield, Nevada.
The 110th Guards Motor-Rifle Division thrashes against the small American blocking force, pushing the paratroops off the main (and only paved) road while other division elements attempt to withdraw from the front lines under pressure from other elements of X Corps.
As part of an effort to strip precious resources from NATO troops in southern Germany, the Soviet Baltic Front launches a series of attacks on II MEF and the Danish Jutland Mechanized Division in northwestern Poland. The attacks are a welcome to the British 3rd Commando Brigade (reinforced with the Dutch 9th Amphibious Combat Group), which has just arrived in Germany after extensive service in northern Norway.
The nuclear cruiser USS Virginia turns southwest in the South Atlantic, heading for the remote Gough Island and the sealanes between there and Tristan da Cunha, seeking the Soviet fishing fleet.
South African Buccaneer light bombers attack an isolated farm 120 km northwest of Bloemfontien, which informants within the AWB have indicated is the regional headquarters for the right-wing terrorist group. Delivering a distinct message, the farm is incinerated by the napalm canisters dispensed by the low-flying aircraft.
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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