Operation Allied Force blasts Yugoslavia – March 24, 1999: Cruise missiles, B-2 bombers used in first strike
March 24, 1999 – Scores of NATO cruise missiles, along with fighter planes and stealth bombers, pounded Yugoslavia on Wednesday night, following through on a long-standing threat to attack if Serbs refused to sign a peace plan for Kosovo. At…
NATO attack on Yugoslavia begins – March 24, 1999
March 24, 1999 – Explosions ripped through Kosovo and outside Belgrade on Wednesday evening as NATO launched cruise missiles against Yugoslavia, following through on a long-standing threat to strike if Serbs refused to sign a U.S.-drafted peace accord for Kosovo….
Milosevic tells citizens to defend Yugoslavia – March 24, 1999
March 24, 1999 – Despite looming NATO airstrikes, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Wednesday remained defiant and called on his people to defend the country „by all means.“ Milosevic delivered the appeal in a nationally televised address. Milosevic urged Yugoslav…
NATO orders military strikes against Yugoslavia – March 23, 1999
March 23, 1999 – NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana has ordered military strikes against Yugoslavia following the failure of a last-minute mission to persuade Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to agree to a U.S.-drafted peace plan. Solana: All efforts to achieve a…
Kosovo Albanians sign peace document – Pressure mounts on stalling Yugoslavs – March 18, 1999
March 18, 1999 – The ethnic Albanian delegation at the Kosovo peace talks in Paris on Thursday signed a peace document that the international community had hoped would help end the separatist conflict in the Serbian province. The ethnic Albanian…
Yugoslavia agrees to withdraw forces from Kosovo – Pullout to begin Thursday
June 9, 1999 – Yugoslav and NATO generals signed an agreement late Wednesday on the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo, following a marathon session of intense talks near the Yugoslav-Macedonian border. „The war has ended,“ Yugoslav Col. Gen. Svetozar…
Stealth Nighthawk downed in Yugoslavia – Rescued pilot safe in Italy as NATO campaign continues
March 28, 1999 – Explosions boomed through Belgrade Sunday and air raid sirens sounded, the morning after the dramatic rescue of a NATO pilot who survived after his warplane went down in Yugoslavia. Officials said the pilot, who was not…
Two jets crash in Kosovo campaign – 2 NATO warplanes down in Kosovo operation
May 2, 1999 – While three American servicemen held for a month in Yugoslavia made their way to freedom in Germany on Sunday, NATO reported that it had lost two U.S. aircraft in its Kosovo air campaign. An F-16 crashed…
Yugoslavia accepts peace deal on Kosovo – Skeptical NATO continues bombing
June 3, 1999 – Although refusing to call it surrender, Yugoslavia’s government on Thursday accepted a Western-backed peace plan for Kosovo that requires Yugoslav and Serb forces to withdraw from the province and provides for an international peacekeeping force to…
B-2 stealth bombers make combat debut
March 24, 1999 – The Pentagon confirmed Wednesday that two B-2 bombers made their combat debut Wednesday, dropping satellite-guided, 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) bombs on Yugoslav targets in the NATO attack code-named Operation Allied Force. The U.S. part of the mission has…