The group completed 493 operational missions in Europe during World War Two consisting of 95,948 individual aircraft sorties.
After 10 hours of fighting, the Iranians were driven back to their original positions again as the Iraqis launched 600 helicopter and 300 aircraft sorties with poison gas.
With 530 aircraft sorties and heavy use of nerve gas, they crushed the Iranian forces in the area, killing 3,500, and nearly destroying a Revolutionary Guard division.
This was made up of a total of 2582 individual aircraft sorties, including 45 prisoner of war airlift sorties.
During the landings, the CVE's launched over 1,400 aircraft sorties in support of ground forces.
Iraqi technicians, however, should be able to maintain current levels of aircraft sorties for three to six months.
The carriers provided support with hundreds of aircraft sorties as 150,000 UN troops and civilians were evacuated, and then destroyed the port.
There were 473 aircraft sorties with 570 hours of aircraft operations.
Trophy (officer and senior NCO in aircraft maintenance or munitions directly involved with setting up aircraft sorties with nuclear weapons)
With clearing weather the number of aircraft sorties soared.