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6 April 2003

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A destroyed airplane lay amid U.S. Army tanks and armored vehicles at Baghdad's international airport

 

Pfcs. Lori Piestewa, right, and Jessica Lynch pose at Fort Bliss, Texas, the day before their deployment to the Middle East in Februrary

 

A U.S. Army 3rd Infantry M1A1 Abrams tank with "Baghdad's nightmare" stenciled on its cannon passes troops relaxing near the Euphrates River as hundreds of armored vehicles push toward the outskirts of Baghdad early Sunday.

 

A U.S. tank from the 2nd Battalion, 70 Armor division parks in the center of the town of Kerbala southwest of Baghdad, April 6, 2003. Moving block by block, U.S. troops pushed into the center of the holy Shi'ite Muslim city of Kerbala after vicious battles with Iraqi paramilitaries threatening U.S. supply lines north to Baghdad

 

David Bloom, co-anchor of NBC's 'Today' show weekend editions, died in Iraq while covering the war, NBC said on April 6, 2003. Bloom's death was not combat-related, NBC said. He died after he suffered a pulmonary embolism

 

A British Army Gazelle helicopter from the 16 Assault Brigade passes a fire in the Ramala oil fields west of Basra

 

Iraqi children play on top of a destroyed U.S. tank on the side of the road in Al Dorah, on the outskirts of Baghdad

 

Ordnance specialists convey a M61A1 Vulcan cannon, a six-barrel 20mm gun capable of firing 6, 600 rounds per minute, over the flight deck of the USS Harry S. Truman

 

A U.S. Army vehicle from the 4th Battalion 64 Armor Regiment "Assasins" smashes a statue of Saddam Hussein outside the Iraqi Republican Guard Medina Division headquarters south of Baghdad

 

A statue of Saddam Hussein lies on the ground outside the Iraqi Republican Guard Medina Division headquarters after it was toppled by a U.S. Army vehicle from the 4th Division 64 Armor Regiment, south of Baghdad