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The shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655 Just months after Operation Praying Mantis, the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner carrying 290 civilians on July 3, 1988. Decision at Sea covers the Battle of Lake Erie (1813), Hampton Roads (1862), Manila Bay (1898), Midway (1942), and Operation Praying Mantis (1988). PRICE CODE 17. Mantis Tiller/Cultivator Owner's Manual.

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This bill would extend the eligibility for the veterans' property tax deduction to veterans of Operation "Praying Mantis," which was the attack by U.S. naval forces in retaliation for the Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf, and the subsequent damage to an American warship. ... Summary of Contents for Mantis Tiller/Cultivator.

Watch a news clip about Operation Praying Mantis, produced by U.S. Navy public affairs and aired 30 April 1988. H-Gram 020, Attachment 1 Samuel J. Cox, Director NHHC July 2018 Following the execution of Operation Praying Mantis on 18 April 1988, President Ronald Reagan gave U.S. Navy ships authority to engage Iranian warships that were in the act of attacking neutral merchant ships in the Arabian Gulf.

In response, Enterprise and her escorts with a surface action group launched Operation Praying Mantis, attacking Iranian facilities in the gulf on April 18—the forty-sixth anniversary of the Doolittle raid. As something of a bonus, the prologue covers the Battle of the Chesapeake (1781) and recent operations in the Persian Gulf. Operation Praying Mantis was an attack on April 18, 1988, by U.S. naval forces within Iranian territorial waters in retaliation for the Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf during the Iran–Iraq war and the subsequent damage to an American warship. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy v About the Author David B. Crist, a senior historian in the Joint History Office, Joint Chiefs of Staff, has written and spoken exten- sively about contemporary military history, especially on operations in the Middle East.

Diplomacy, Tanker War, Merchant Shipping, Operation Earnest Will, Operation Nimble Archer, Operation Praying Mantis, USS Vincennes 16. Roper favors the larger of the two insects while Lee favors the smaller.

Summary (2012-02-09) Extends eligibility for $250 property tax deduction to veterans of Operation "Praying Mantis." The U.S. Navy warships that escorted the tankers, part of U.S. The Reagan administration produced unorthodox diplomatic contacts between Washington and Tehran.

Operation Praying Mantis, April 1988. Operation Earnest Will (24 July 1987 – 26 September 1988) was the American military protection of Kuwaiti-owned tankers from Iranian attacks in 1987 and 1988, three years into the Tanker War phase of the Iran–Iraq War.