3 April 2003

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	Marines carry a wounded Marine to a helicopter for evacuation after two convoys headed in opposite directions collided on a road south of Baghdad
	Members of Britain's 49 Field Squadron Royal Engineers prepare to use plastic explosive to destroy an arms cache discovered Thursday, April 3, 2003, on the outskirts of Abu Al Khasib, containing more than 200 rocket-propelled grenades
	Except for the lights from a hotel on generator power, total darkness envelops Iraq's capital, Baghdad, after electricity went out Thursday
	U.S. Army Bradley fighting vehicles from A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Regiment continue on their way after destroying an Iraqi military vehicle on the outskirts of Baghdad on Thursday. The U.S. forces crossed the Euphrates River on Thursday and engaged Iraqi forces near the Iraqi capital
	Medical battallion Chief Hospital Corpsman David Jones from New York, serving with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, holds a newborn Iraqi baby in the town of Nassiriya April 2. Doctors supporting U.S. Marine combat operations in Iraq had to brush up their child delivery skills when a young Iraqi woman, Jamila Katham, was brought to their base and gave birth to a six-pound baby girl, U.S. Marine surgeons said. The baby, Katham's first child, has been named Rogenia. The mother and child, both said to be doing well, were given food, water and bandages and were later driven home in a U.S. military ambulance
	President Bush walks among saluting members of the U.S. Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina on Thursday. With U.S. troops facing the possible use of chemical weapons on the outskirts of Baghdad, Bush told the Marines that nothing the Iraqis might try would deter the U.S.-led invasion
	An Iraqi man bicycles past a demolished car while fighting continues Thursday in Basra, Iraq. Coalition forces Thursday secured an area in the city around a college that had been the scene of recent fighting
	Capt. Kevin Jackson of the Engineer's Brigade, Army's 3rd Infantry Division, is seen guarding a convoy through the cracked windshield of the brigade's command vehicle on Thursday, somewhere south of Baghdad. The vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade earlier, but no one was injured.
	Iraqi prisoners of war, surrounded by a roll of razor wire, sit by the road Thursday as a convoy of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division passes by on its push toward Baghdad
	A mourner stands at the casket of U.S. Marine Capt. Ryan Beaupre following a graveside service on April 3 in St. Anne, Ill. Beaupre, one of the first casualties of the war in Iraq, was killed March 21 when his helicopter crashed in Kuwait.
	3rd Infantry Division tanks prepare to move out
	An Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) makes its way on the docks after it was unloaded from the US Navy ship Cape Victory, unseen, at the Kuwait City harbour, Thursday, April 3, 2003. Some 36 boats carrying all of the motorized gear for the heavily mechanized 4th Infantry Division remained aboard these ships for weeks in the Mediteranean sea, off the coast of Turkey, waiting to be downloaded before they were diverted to Kuwait
	Aircraft handling officers prepare a F/A-18 Hornet of the VFA-105 Gunslingers squadron before take off from the flight deck of the USS Harry S. Truman for strike operations over Iraq
	A tattered American flag rides northward through the Iraqi desert atop a U.S. Army tank with the 3rd Infantry Division Task Force 1-64 near Karbala in central Iraq Wednesday
	US Army's 3rd Battalion, 69th Regiment Armor Task Force (Task Force 3-69) pushes north past the Karbala Dam Wednesday, April 2, 2003, near Karbala, Iraq. The task force is the lead northern element of the coalition forces approaching Baghadad from the south.
	Thirteen-year-old Katelyn Weedon weeps as "Taps" is played at a memorial service in Chesterfield County, Va., for her cousin, Marine Staff Sgt. Donald C. May Jr. May was killed in Iraq last week. Katelyn's teddy bear is adorned with May's photo