Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index During the 2003 American invasion of Iraq. Operation Ivy Cyclone was an operation launched in early November 2003 by the Fourth 'Ivy' Infantry Division against the resistance stronghold of Tikrit, Iraq. On 7 November an American helicopter was forced down near the city and the next day heavy air and artillery strikes supported a number of military operations in the area. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.