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U.S. Marines with India Co., 3rd Battalion, 7th
Marines, watch as a fire rages following an air and artillery strike
against an Iraqi army training camp southeast of Baghdad early Sunday,
April 6, 2003 |
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Bombed vehicles from the convoy of U.S. special forces troops and
Kurdish fighters apparently hit by American bombs |
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A Bradley fighting vehicle with
Alpha Company 1-30 Infantry, attached to Task Force 3-7 Infantry, 1st
Brigade Combat Team, 3rd ID, Fort Stewart, Ga., drives on the tarmac
at Saddam International Airport while taking the ground under fire
from Iraqi forces during the battle for the airport |
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Army Sgt. George Edward Buggs, 31,
Barnwell, S.C., was identified April 5 as one of the soldiers found
dead during the rescue of an American POW.
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President George W. Bush bows his
head in prayer during the invocation at Camp Lejeune, N.C. |
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A camel attempts to cross the road
as a convoy of U.S. military vehicles rolls through the desert on its
way to Baghdad.
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A humvee with a machine gun mounted
on top heads for Baghdad |
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A medical Blackhawk helicopter
lifts off from a road south of Al Kut, along the Tigris River where
U.S. Marines have been operating.
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Two Huey helicopters land in a
field near the fighting.
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The door gunner in a Huey
helicopter keeps watch as Marines scan the terrain near Al Kut in
Eastern Iraq. |
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Iraqi RPG launchers, hand grenades
and the boots of Iraqi soldiers that have been sucked off by the deep
mud remain at the scene after a fight with U.S. Marines. The Iraqis
fled after Marines returned fire.
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The boot of an Iraqi soldier sits
stuck in the mud near adandoned RPG's (rocket propelled grenades)
after U.S. forces fired on soldiers trying to engage them.
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Members of a U.S. disposal team
place mortar rounds in a pit. The ordnance was seized from an Iraqi
supply truck in southern Iraq.
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Members of the 1st battalion, 11th
Marines, Alpha battery hold their ears as an artillery round from a
155mm Howitzer heads toward a destination in southern Iraq.
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An American flag hangs from an
Apache helicopter from the 1st Cavalry. |
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This Apache Longbow Delta
helicopter may be a total loss after the pilot lost control on take
off, destroying the rotor blades and collapsing the landing gear.
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One of two large bullets jammed in
the barrel of an Apache Longbow Delta's gun as the sand complicates
operations.
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Air Force Lt. John Bloche celebrates his hit after he was invited to
pull the trigger on an Abrams M1A1 tank to destroy an Iraqi SA-6
surface to air missile, on the outskirts of Karbala, Iraq |
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Canadian singer Shania Twain poses with her Juno
award, in Ottawa, April 6, 2003. Twain won two Junos, including Artist
of the Year. |
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Twain is hosting the awards, which recognizes
excellence in Canadian music, and is nominated in five of the
categories |
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A statement released by the
family of United States Marine Corp Captain Travis Ford |
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Iraqi soldiers stand on top of a
destroyed U.S. tank in the southern outskirts of Baghdad, April 6,
2003 |
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An Iraqi soldier passes a
destroyed U.S. tank in the southern outskirts of Baghdad |
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Engineers of the U.S. Army's 3rd
Infantry division leave a message to Saddam Hussein a day ago on the
nose of a destroyed Iraqi Airways plane on the runway at Baghdad
International airport |
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The Pope pleaded Sunday for a
swift end to the conflict in Iraq |
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Chief Warrant Officer Johnny
Villareal Mata, of El Paso, Texas, a member of the 507th Maintenance
Company, is shown in this undated photo |
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