Operation Dawn 5
| date | February 15 , 1984 |
|---|---|
| place | Basra |
| output | draw |
| consequences | low Iranian land gain |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Troop strength | |
| 2 corps | 500,000 soldiers |
| losses | |
|
~ 25,000 |
~ 25,000 |
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Iraqi Invasion (1980)
Entegham - Kaman 99 - Khorramshahr - Sultan 10 - Scorch Sword - Abadan - Kafka - Ashkan - Morwarid - Dezful
Standoff (1981) Tavakol - Susangerd - H-3
Iranian offensives for the liberation of Iranian territory (1981–82)
Sam-ol-A'emeh - Tariq al-Qods - Fath ol-Mobin - Beit ol-Moqaddas - liberation of Khorramshahr
Iranian offensives in Iraq (1982–84)
Ramadan - Muslim Ibn Aqil - Muharram ol-Harram - Dawn 1 - Dawn 2 - Dawn 3 - Dawn 4 - Dawn 5 - Kheibar - Kurdish Uprising - Dawn 6 - Dawn 7 - Hawizeh Marshland
Iranian offensives in Iraq (1985-87)
Badr - Dawn 8 - 1. al-Faw - Dawn 9 - Karbala 1 - Karbala 2 - Karbala 3 - Fath 1 - Karbala 4 - Karbala 5 - Karbala 6 - Karbala 7 - Karbala 8 - Karbala 9 - Karbala10 - Nasr 4
Last year of the war (1988)
Beit ol-Moqaddas 2 - Anfal - Halabdscha - Zafar 7 - Tawakalna ala Allah - 2nd al-Faw - Shining Sun - 40 stars - Mersad
Tanker War
Earnest Will - Prime Chance - Eager Glacier - Nimble Archer - Praying Mantis
International Incidents
USS Stark - Iran Air Flight 655
Operation Dawn 5 (Persian Valfajr 5 ; in English literature mostly translated as Operation Dawn 5 ) was an offensive in the First Gulf War . The aim of the offensive was the separation of the Iraqi 3rd Army Corps and 4th Army Corps near Basra . On the Iranian side, only Pasdaran were used, which in the initial phase of the operation advanced by boat to within a few kilometers of the strategic Basra- Baghdad waterway. But the Iranians lacked artillery , air support and armored vehicles, so they could not defeat the better-equipped Iraqis.
The next major Iranian offensive took place on February 22nd with Operation Dawn 6 .
literature
- Spencer Tucker: Persian Gulf War Encyclopedia: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO 2014, ISBN 978-1-6106-9415-5 .
- E. Hooton, Tom Cooper: The Iran-Iraq War. Volume 2: Iran Strikes Back, June 1982-December 1986 Helion and Company 2017, ISBN 978-1-9110-9657-3 .
- Efraim Karsh: The Iran – Iraq War 1980–1988 (Essential Histories) Osprey Publishing 2002, ISBN 978-1-8417-6371-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karsh, p. 10.