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The Second Battle of Fallujah, initially codenamed Operation Phantom Fury, Operation al-Fajr (Arabic: الفجر, lit. ' The Dawn ') was an American-led offensive of the Iraq War that began on 7 November 2004 and lasted about six weeks.
First Fights in Fallujah: Marines During Operation Vigilant Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004. Philadelphia: Casemate. ISBN 9781636243184. No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah, by Bing West (2005) (ISBN 978-0-553-80402-7) Blood Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq, by David J. Danelo (2007) (ISBN 978-0-8117-3393-9)
Fallujah: The Real Fall special report on Fallujah since November 2004 - Channel 4 (11 January 2005) Falluja: City with history of rebellion - BBC News 23 December 2004 Raw Video Footage of U.S. Offensive in Fallujah large archive of news network footage and unofficial footage collected by Geoffrey Huntley – fallujah.us
The battle was halted mid-way for political reasons, an outcome that commentators have described as insurgent victory. [3] [4] [5] Seven months later, in November 2004, a second attempt to capture the city, the Second Battle of Fallujah, proved successful. Intelligence reports concluded that the attack was planned by Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi.
During combat operations in Iraq from June 2004-January 2005, 1st Battalion 8th Marines (Reinforced) suffered 21 Marines killed in action (KIA) and nearly 150 Marines wounded in action (WIA) with 17 KIA's and 102 WIA's coming in three weeks in Fallujah in November 2004. 1/8 conducted a relief in place with their sister battalion 3/8 and ...
Also in November the Second Battle of Fallujah occurred, when US forces carried out Operation Phantom Fury, which left ninety-five percent of the city in ruins. Four days after the end of the Spring Fighting on June 28, 2004, the Coalition Provisional Authority transferred control to a new Iraqi government. With this, the occupation was ...
Battle for Fallujah and aftermath (November 2004 – January 2005) [ edit ] The U.S. and Iraqi buildup around Fallujah continued, and by the beginning of November and the time of the U.S. presidential elections, over 5,000 U.S. and 1,000 Iraqi troops surrounded the city.
TF 6-26 conducted missions in Fallujah before and during the First Battle of Fallujah. [33] On 19 August 2004, TF 6-26 operators and an Iraqi special forces unit, supported by U.S. Marines from Detachment One as part of Task Unit Raider carried out a raid on "Objective Resistor", the target being a former regime official running a large anti ...