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The battle that occurred would be covered in numerous books to include: LTG (Ret) Dan Bolger's book "Death Ground-Today’s American Infantry in Battle",[1] John McManus's book“Grunts”,[2] LTG (Ret) Mike Flannigan's book “Lightning”,[3] Tom Taylor's “Lightning in the Storm”,[4] General (Ret) Binford Peay's Oral History,[5] "MG (Ret) Robert Scales book “Certain Victory”,[6] Colonel (Ret) Robert Jones book “History of the 101st Airborne”,[7] Charles Lane Toomey's "XVIII Airborne Corps in Desert Storm"[8] and Thomas Houlahan's "Gulf War The Complete History.'"[9] The battle would also be the subject of a 2001 painting entitled: The Lightning of Desert Storm.[10] In 2018 Colonel (Ret) Hancock would author the article "Thank God for Thinking Soldiers" for Infantry Magazine[11] which discussed the battle. The battalion would receive a Valorous Unit Award for its actions.[12]
^Bolger, Daniel P. (2 December 2003). Death Ground: Today's American Infantry in Battle. Random House Publishing. ISBN089141830X.
^McManus, John C. (2 August 2011). Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq. Penguin. ISBN978-0451233417.
^Flanagan, E. M. (1994). Lightning: The 101st in the Gulf War. Brassey's (US). ISBN0028810953.
^Taylor, Thomas (July 2003). Lightning in the Storm: The 101st Air Assault Division in the Gulf War. Hippocrene Books, Incorporated. ISBN0781810175.
