December 28, 2012 -- Updated 0348 GMT (1148 HKT) Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded coalition forces during the Gulf War, died Thursday, a U.S. official said. He was 78. Operation Desert Shield commander Schwarzkopf, center, with U.S. Special Forces soldiers in US-led allied gulf crisis-containing operations on September 27, 1990. Schwarzkopf is decorated with the medal of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, the highest French distinction awarded to a foreign policy figure by Gen. Maurice Schmitt, who led the French contingent to the allied operation against Iraq, at a ceremony at the Aubagne base, the French Foreign Legion base, in Southern France on July 24, 1991. Schwarzkopf...
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