battle, notable, Cold War

Attack on H3

Name: Attack on H3
Start: 1981-04-04
Location: Iraq

Attack on H3 was a battle fought on 4 April 1981 at Iraq. It was part of the Iran–Iraq War, which ran from 1980 to 1988.

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H-3 Main Air Base, Iraq. USGS - National Imagery and Mapping Agency, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Record

Date	4 April 1981
Place	Iraq 32.930N, 39.744E
Part of	Iran–Iraq War (1980 to 1988)
Kind	Battle, Cold War

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Damascus 1400, 148 km
Siege of Dura-Europos AD 239, 222 km
Battle of Dura-Europos AD 165, 222 km
Siege of Dura-Europos AD 250, 222 km
Battle of Palmyra 1941, 227 km

In the same war

Before: Battle of Dezful 1981
After: Operation Tariq al-Qods 7 December 1981
All 10 engagements of Iran–Iraq War

Elsewhere in 1981

Siege of Aleppo Syria
Battle of Guelta Zemmur Morocco

Attack on H3 is one of 1,912 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 88 in present-day Iraq.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q1765847, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article H-3 airstrike, revision 1381804743, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.