SCUD SEEKERS

Andrew Thomas outlines the combat missions completed by the sole Australian fighter squadron to fly during the 2003 invasion of Iraq

A trio of 75 Squadron Hornets take on fuel from a KC-10A over the Saudi desert in the days before the war

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In early 2003, Australia joined the ‘Coalition of the Willing’, the US-led alliance eventually totalling 48 nations, marshalled against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.