Desert Storm Victory Parade in Washington DC.

Washington DC June 8-1991 A flag-waving crowd of 200,000 Saturday cheered veterans of Operation Desert Storm as the nation's capital staged its biggest victory celebration since the end of World War II. Stealth fighter planes zoomed overhead, tanks and Patriot missiles rolled by and more than 8,000 battle-clad troops marched past a beaming President Bush in a display of the American military might that crushed Iraq in 43 days of combat. Crews stood up in hatches of Bradley Fighting Vehicles and (Photo by Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images)