Not too long after Tora Tora's first release, “Surprise Attack” (1989), American troops were hitting the ground in Kuwait as part of Operation Desert Storm and the Gulf War. The only real visuals we had of the event back in the U.S. at that time were what we could catch on the nightly TV news, and it looked like something straight out of the movies (movies from the late 80s, that is). From the glowing tracers and missiles in the nighttime sky to scenes of our soldiers in bunkers with their gas masks on…
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