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Grenada is a three island state: Grenada, Carriacou, and Petit Martinique.
Grenada is the largest of the three, with a width of twelve miles (18 km) and a length
of twenty-one miles (34 km). The total area is 133 square miles.
The highest point is Mount Saint Catherine, at 2,757 feet.
Carriacou is much less mountainous than Grenada, with an area of 13 square miles and wonderful sandy beaches.
The three islands of Grenada are located in the Eastern Caribbean
at the southern extremity of the Windward Islands, only 100 miles
North of Venezuela. To the North lie St. Vincent and the Grenadines;
to the South Trinidad and Tobago.
Grenada
This series of photos was taken by Bob Bradley during Urgent Fury, while flying to and after landing at Point Salinas.
These next few are DOD photos.
Time for a nice group photo...
Something Bad is happening over that hill
Here's a couple of shots of the return of the students following the US invasion of Grenada
From the George Miller Collection
From the George Miller Collection
As they block in.
De-Planing
Copyright:USAF Photo
Source:George Miller collection
"Soldier Uses Credit Card to Phone for Help during the Grenada Invasion"
Submitted by Jason Marshall (18)
This cartoon is based on a true account of what happened during the invasion....
Per a report produced by the US Naval War College, Operations Department
(Command and Control and Communications Lessons Learned:
Iranian Rescue, Falklands Conflict, Grenada Invasion, Libya Raid
by Colonel Stephen E. Anno and Lieutenant Colonel William E. Einspahr,
Air War College Research Report, No. AU-AWC-88-043, Air University, USAF,
Maxwell AFB, Alabama, pp. 36-63) .....
"....one member of the invasion force placed a long distance, commercial
telephone call to Fort Bragg, N.C. to obtain C-130 gunship support for his
unit which was under fire. His message was relayed via satellite and the
gunship responded.
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