25 March 2003
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| Heavy fighting continued on Monday in Nasiriya, where American marines appeared to be stepping into just the sort of urban imbroglio they had long been hoping to avoid. | The Marines said they had begun to gain the upper hand, as the steady bombardment from artillery and airpower enabled them to move toward the north of the city. | Members of the British Army's Scots Dragoon Guards took a break on Monday after a long night of fighting in southern Iraq. |
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| In this image from video shown on Al-Jazeera television, Chief Warrant Officer Ronald D. Young, Jr., 26, from Georgia, left, and Chief Warrant Officer David S. Williams, 30, from Florida, are seen. Young and Williams are the two-man crew believed to be aboard an Apache helicopter that was allegedly forced down in central Iraq | Caption Vehicles drive towards a cloud of black smoke in Baghdad, Monday March 24, 2003. Oil fires ring the city as a defense against incoming U.S. missiles and bombs |
M1-A1 tank gunner Sgt. Terrance Johnson from the
4th Battalion 64th Armor Regiment, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, sits
idle during an intense sandstorm which slowed U.S. military progress in the
area near Karbala, Iraq Tuesday, March 25, 2003. |
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A member of the Royal Irish Regiment guards a
stack of Iraqi weapons collected by allied forces near Rumeilah, Iraq, in
this image from video taken Monday, March 24, 2003. |
Sgt. Andrew Garrett watches K-Dog, a bottlenose dolphin attached to Commander Task Unit 55.4.3, leap out of the water while training near the USS Gunston Hall in the Persian Gulf on March 18, 2003 | An oil well burns in southern Iraq on Saturday, March 22, 2003 |
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| A U.S. Stealth F-117 fighter lands at its base in Kuwait after its mission over Iraq, Saturday, March 22, 2003 | A Tomahawk Land Attack Missile is launched from the guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill from the eastern Mediterranean Sea Sunday, March 23, 2003 | F/A-18 Hornets prepare to make an arrested landing aboard the deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the eastern Mediterranean, Sunday March 23, 2003, after their return from an attack mission in Iraq. The squadrons of the carrier group took part in the second night of strikes for Operation Iraqi Freedom, on sorties attacking a Republican Guard complex in central Iraq. |
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| Michaela Wilson, 6, waves a flag to get her father's attention Sunday, March 23, 2003, as he and more than 180 soldiers from Oklahoma National Guard and Reserve units leave for U.S. Central Command | Iraqi soldiers, waving white flag and raising their arms, attempt to surrender to passing journalists, outside the demilitarized zone in southern Iraq, Friday, March 21, 2003 | Mary C. Phillips of Tiffin, Ohio, holds up a sign in support of the troops but is opposed of the war during an anti-war gathering in front of the Seneca County Courthouse in Tiffin, Ohio |
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| U.S. Army soldiers from the A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment cover up during an intense sandstorm Tuesday that slowed their advance near Karbala, Iraq. Click "Play" to hear soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division describe the storm. | A U.S. military aircraft takes off from the USS Constellation March 25 in this view photographed from a support helicopter. The carrier is in the Persian Gulf off Iraq. | A wounded Marine is helped to treatment during an intense firefight March 23 just outside Nasiriyah, a town on the road to Baghdad. Nine Marines were killed when an Iraqi unit indicated it was giving up, then opened fire |
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| U.S. Capt. Pete Shull of Fairbank, Ind., with the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division burns latrine waste in an undisclosed location in southern Iraq on March 25 | A Bradley fighting vehicle stops near a bridge over the small finger of the Euphates River as a helicopter surveys the surrounding area in the southern city of As Samawah | An M1A1 tank stops in front of an Iraqi man to question him for suspicious activity |
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| Soldiers tug on a winch cable to recover a mired tank in Iraq | Worn shoes of an Iraqi soldier | Marines cover the body of one of two soldiers killed in an ambush |
