Feature Photo: The 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade Combat Team Task Force 1/64 armor alpha
company–known as the Wild Bunch–finalizes preparations for war as ammunition is issued and
loaded onto tanks.
A U.S. marine carries his mobile toilet seat while others are about to board their armored personal carrier to head
toward the Iraqi capital Baghdad in southern Iraq (news - web sites), Monday, March 23, 2003.
An oil fire burning along a highway near Baghdad can be seen through a car window, Monday March 24, 2003.
United States Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, right, explains a screened image which shows targets in Iraq
(news - web sites), as General Tommy Franks, left, looks on during a news conference, at Camp As Sayliyah,
in Doha, Qatar, Monday, March 24, 2003.
British Royal Air Force 18 Squadron Chinook helicopter flying over the northern Arabian Gulf , Monday March 24, 2003
Shiite flags fly in the wind with laundry on the rooftop of a home in New Baghdad, a suburb of Baghdad,
Monday, March 24, 2003
U.S. Army infantrymen discuss their next mission while in the desert near Karbalah, Iraq (news - web sites)
Monday, March 24, 2003. The soldiers are with Company A 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment and is part
of the 3rd Infantry Division advancing further into Iraq. (AP Photo/ John Moore)
U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Henry P. Osman, left, adjusts his hat as he escorted by unidentified bodyguards
before a news conference in Salahuddin, Iraq (news - web sites) which is controlled by Kurdistan Democratic Party
KDP, Monday, March. 24, 2003. Osman said U.S. forces have arrived in northern in Iraq and he will oversee
coordination of humanitarian and military operations in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
A phrase from Turkey's modern founder Ataturk that reads: ' How happy is the one who calls himself a Turk ' is
written on a hillside in Kiziltepe, southeastern Turkey, Monday March 24, 2003.
Pilots Lt. Sean Foss and Lt. j.g. Nate Rodenbargar land a U.S. Navy (news - web sites) Seahawk helicopter
on the flight deck of the USS Shiloh, a cruiser in the Persian Gulf, Sunday, March 23, 2003.
A US Marine looks on during operation Telic near the port of Um Qsar in Southern Iraq (news - web sites),
Monday March 24, 2003.
40 Commando British Royal Marines advance on the Al Faw peninsula, southern Iraq (news - web sites),
in this recent undated photo made available, Monday March 24, 2003.
In a moment of calmness, soldiers with the D Squadron of the British Household Cavalry Regiment, part of
16 Air Assault Brigade, relax as they eaning on a Spartan tank, in the Al-Hijarah desert, southern Iraq
(news - web sites), Monday March 24, 2003.
Iraqi men lie face down in the sand of southern Iraq (news - web sites) after being stopped by a U.S. Marine convoy
and being ordered out of their vehicle Monday, March 23, 2003. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)
Aviation ordinancemen watch over JDAM-32 GPS guided bombs as they wait to place them on planes on the flight
deck of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk in the Gulf, Monday March 24, 2003
The head of Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Pavle, holds a commemoration service for the victims of
1999 NATO (news - web sites) bombing of Serbia, in Belgrade, Monday March 24, 2003. More then 2,000
people were killed in the 78 days of air strikes that started four years ago. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
An unidentified Syrian, who was wounded by a U.S. missile according to Syria's official news agency, lies in
bved at a hospital on Monday, March 24, 2003 on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria.
Handout picture released by the US Defense Department (DOD) shows US Marines from the 2nd Battalion,
1st Marine Regiment escorting captured enemy prisoners of war to a holding area in the desert of Iraq (news -
web sites) during Operation Iraqi Freedom.(USDD/HO/Brian L. Wickliffe)
British Royal Air Force Joint Force Harrier crew wearing gas masks rush to air raid shelters during an
air raid warning in Kuwait, March 24, 2003.
A British soldier patrols the road on the outskirts of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, March 23, 2003.
British soldiers into a firing position with their 105mm guns as they push north through southern Iraq
(news - web sites), March 24, 2003.
A soldier of the British Royal Military Police checks vehicles at a roadblock on the road leading
to the southern Iraq (news - web sites) city of Basra, March 24, 2003.
Royal Marines from 40 Commando travel north through southern Iraq (news - web sites), March 24, 2003.
An Iraqi boy is reflected in the window of a car being searched for weapons by British soldiers of the
7th armoured brigade, on the road leading to the southern Iraqi city of Basra, March 24, 2003.
Members of the U.S. 15 Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) fight a pitched battle with Iraqi forces
at the port town of Umm-Qsar in southern Iraq (news - web sites), March 23, 2003. (Pool/Reuters)
An Iraqi boy waves to a soldier of the British Royal Military Police, during checks on a bus on the road
leading to the southern Iraq (news - web sites) city of Basra, March 24, 2003.
Thousands of allied troops bolstered positions around Nasiriyah for what one US Marine officer predicted would
be a "major battle".(AFP/Odd Andersen)
US marines have been engaged in heavy fighting in Nasiriyah with ten marines confirmed killed and several
still missing in action.(AFP/Odd Andersen)
An Iraqi man (L) watches as a soldier of the British Royal Military Police patrols the road leading to the
southern Iraqi city of Basra March 24, 2003.
An Iranian solider mans a millitary control tower on March 23, 2003 in the waters of the Shatt al-Arab
estuary separating Iran and Iraq
Smoke rises at sunset from the area around Iraq (news - web sites)'s second city of Basra, March 23, 2003,
about 50 km (30 miles) from the Iranian border in the foreground.
US soldier mans his machine-gun as a convoy leaves Nasiriyah in southern Iraq
A U.S. Marine assists an injured Iraqi prisoner of war in the port town of Umm Qasr in southern Iraq
(news - web sites), March 23, 2003.
An Iraqi armored personnel carrier and two Iraqi tanks, left over after the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq (news - web sites) war,
are seen on March 23, 2003 in the Shalamchech area, southwestern Iran. The site was opened to visitors until
last week when the U.S.-led war on neighbouring Iraq began. While most Iranian officials make no secret of their
hatred for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), who used mustard and nerve gases against Iranian
troops in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, they are loathe to offer any support to the 'Great Satan' Washington.
Picture taken March 23. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi
U.S. airmen and soldiers observe silence in Kandahar on March 24, 2003 as a flag is raised to half-mast in
honor of the six airmen who were killed in a helicopter crash the previous day.
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A U.S. Marine from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit uses a radio during a scouting mission at a village in
Az Zubayar, southern Iraq (news - web sites)'s desert, Monday, March 24, 2003
A U.S. Marine from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit takes a short break in Az Zubayar, southern Iraq (news -
web sites)'s desert, Monday, March 24, 2003.
US Marines from the 2nd Battalion 8th regiment enter the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.(AFP/Eric Feferberg)
A Scottish flag flies on an armored personnel carrier of the British forces Queen's Dragoon Guards, as it speeds on
Kuwaiti territory, in this photo made available, Monday March 24, 2003.
A British Royal Marine from 3 Commando Brigade keeps low in the town of Umm Qasr in southern Iraq
(news - web sites), March 22, 2003.
British Army Corporal Leanne Fielden, 21, of Southend, guards a road on the Rumaila oilfield
in southern Iraq (news - web sites), March 23, 2003.
British Lt. Col. Ronnie McCourt answers questions during an interview with the Associated Press at the Central
Command Centre, in Doha, Qatar, Monday, March. 24, 2003. McCourt confirmed two British soldiers were missing
Monday after a convoy of vehicles they were travelling in was attacked Sunday in southern Iraq
A U.S. soldier from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force stands guard at a burning oil well at the Rumeila Oil fields March 23, 2003 in Iraq
Soldiers of the British 7th Armored Brigade patrol the road leading to the southern Iraq (news - web sites)
city of Basra, past a portrait of President Saddam Hussein
U.S. Marines take up positions after an air raid alarm brought their convoy to a halt near Al Nassiriya in Iraq
(news - web sites), March 23, 2003.
Young Iraqis react on the streets of Umm Qasr in southern Iraq (news - web sites) as British Royal Marines
drive through the town, March 22, 2003.
This image from Iraqi television on March 23, 2003 shows what the state broadcaster said was the body
of a U.S. soldier after a battle southeast of the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya where U.S. forces
have encountered stiff resistance.
US Army soldiers in occupied southern Iraq (news - web sites) rush a wounded US Marine soldier for
medical evacuation to military hospital in Camp Udairi in Kuwait(AFP/Romeo Gacad)
U.S. Marines from the 15 Marine Expeditionary Unit fire a shoulder-launched Javelin missile during a battle
with Iraqi troops at the port in Umm Qasr, Iraq (news - web sites), Sunday, March 23, 2003.
A building receives tank fire from U.S. Marines beside the port of Umm-Qasr in southern Iraq (news - web sites)
on March 23, 2003 as pockets of Republican Guard resistance remain in a residential area beside the port.
U.S. forces used planes and tanks on Sunday in a battle to dislodge at least 120 Iraqi Republican Guards
were reported to be dug in. Photo by Desmond Boylan/Reuters
U.S. Marines keep watch over displaced Iraqis, in the port of Umm-Qasr in southern Iraq
(news - web sites), March 22, 2003.
U.S. Marines run for cover from Iraqi fire in the port of Umm-Qasr in southern Iraq
(news - web sites), March 23, 2003
US Marines from the 2nd Battalion 8th regiment enter the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah
Lt. Parker Maye, from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, of the U.S. army 2nd Battalion, 70 Armor attached to
3rd Brigade Combat team part of the 3rd Infantry Division passes Iraqi people during push into
southeastern Iraq (news - web sites), March 23, 2003.
An Iraqi man waves as he greets U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 70 Armor attached to 3rd Brigade Combat
team part of the 3rd Infantry Division in south eastern Iraq
A still from a video released by the military showing a British Royal Air Force Harrier GR7 targeting
and destroying a surface to surface missile, in Iraq (news - web sites) early March 23, 2003.
British Royal Air Force personnel wait in full biological and chemical protective suits in a bunker
after a warning of a scud attack from Iraq
A column of British Marines cross the border from Safwan, Kuwait, into Iraq
A Kuwaiti policeman signals to a column of British Marines crossing the border from Safwan, Kuwait, into Iraq
United States Marine Sgt. MIchael Brady of El Paso, Texas mans the tail gunner position with an M-16 A2 service rifle
while on a mission aboard a CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter to deliver ammunition supplies to a staging poing in Iraqi
territory Sunday, March 23, 2003.
A United States Marine with the 3rd Marine Air Wing band plays Taps near the end of a memorial service at an air
base in the Gulf region Sunday, March 23, 2003 for the four Marines who died when their CH-46E Sea Knight
helicopter crashed Friday in Kuwait during a mission in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
An Iraqi teenager leads a flock of sheep past a U.S. Marine Corp. military truck near the Southern Iraqi town
of Basra, March 23, 2003.
U.S. soldiers wait next to civilian buses as they wait to leave from a U.S. logistics base near the Turkish-Iraqi
border in Nusaybin, southeastern Turkey, Sunday, March 23, 2003.
A Marine from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment, kicks open a door as troops search house by house close to
the Euphrates River on the outskirts of the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. There allied troops found some
resistance in their northbound advance torwards the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.(AFP/Cris Bouruncle)
Journalists visit a house destroyed by a missile in Baghdad, late March 22, 2003.
Air wing maintenance personnel take a break from flight operations to clean the flight deck of the
USS Theodore Roosevelt on Sunday, March 23, 2003
A Chinook helicopter comes in low as it works to lower a mobile bridge into exactly the right place on the banks
of the Shat Al Basra across from Umm Qasr in southern Iraq (news - web sites). British commando- trained
Royal Engineers flew in to the battle zone of Umm Qasr to build a vital supply bridge.(AFP-Pool/Tom Whitehead)
Iraqi soldiers search through sugar cane growth along the banks of the Tigris River Sunday, March 23, 2003, after
reports that a U.S. jet was allegedly downed and that the pilot parachuted into the Tigris.
A U.S. Army engineer, wearing the second level of his NBC protection suit, points his 'saw' machine
gun as heavy equipment passes by to reach important ground for the U.S. troops in the south of the
city of Najaf in central Iraq
Newly arrived US Marines face away from the blast of dust from a Cobra attack helicopter as they land in southern Iraq
U.S. Army infantry soldiers relax on their cots after they a heavy gunfire exchange with Iraqi soldiers
to secure important ground in the south of the city of Najaf in central Iraq
US Marines are dropped by a transport helicopter in southern Iraq
A US Marines CH-53 Stallion delivers fuel in its forward command post in southern Iraq
Private Ricky Fisher, 18, of Pontypridd, a battlefield ambulance driver with the 1 Close Support Medical Regiment,
is pictured in southern Iraq (news - web sites) March 23, 2003. Fisher, the youngest British soldier serving in
Iraq, was called on today to go the the aid of two Iraqi casualties. REUTERS/POOL/Vanessa Allen-MOD
An Iraqi Kurd in a trench near the village of Aloka in the Kurdish-held northern Iraq (news - web sites),
watches the hills March 23, 2003 near the town of Fayda, controlled by President Saddam Hussein
Soldiers from 40 Commando Royal Marines question a local man during their move into al-Faw, southern Iraq
U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit patrols outside of the command office at the Iraqi Naval
base in Az Zubayar, in southern Iraq
I really like the picture with .50 Cal with the scope mounted on it.
