US official: Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf has died
AP: A U.S. official tells Associated Press that retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf has died in Tampa, Florida. He was 78.
Schwarzkopf commanded the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein’s forces out of Kuwait in 1991.
He lived in retirement in Tampa, where he had served in his last military assignment as commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command.
Photo: In this Jan. 12, 1991 file photo, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf stands at ease with his tank troops during Operation Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)


