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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

IV.Serb Losses

Troops Killed: 5,000
Troops Wounded: 10,000
Tanks Lost: 93
APC's Lost: 153
Artillery Pieces Lost: 389
Military Vehicles: 339
Aircraft Lost in Dogfights: 6 Mig-29's & 1 Mi-8
Aircraft Lost on the Ground: about 40-50( 5 Mig-29's, about 20 Mig-21's)

Targeting and hitting Serb troops in Kosovo proved to be a challenge due to bad weather and the terrain allowed the Serbs to hide better. During the final days NATO was given another advantage to hit Serb troops, and that was the KLA. The KLA would attack Serbs in Kosovo until NATO aircraft would come down and drop bombs on the Serbs. In one such incident near the end the KLA brought about 800 Serb troops into the open. A single B-52 Stratofortress bomber carpet bombed the area and all 800 Serb soldiers lost their lives. After the war, NATO investigated the area to see if there were any clues left behind and what they saw only cleared up the fact that around 800 Serb soldiers were caught in the open and obliterated. At the site wreckage abandoned by the Serbs was still present.

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