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The 507th Maintenance Company was a United States Army unit which was ambushed during the Battle of Nasiriyah in the rapid advance towards Baghdad during 2003 invasion of Iraq on 23 March 2003. The most well known member of the unit was Private First Class Jessica Lynch whose rescue from an Iraqi hospital received worldwide media coverage.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 09:51, 26 February 2011: 1 min 39 s, 320 × 240 (8.07 MB): Esemono {{Information |Description=Video clip showing US Marines entering Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq |Source=Diary Clips from First Lieutenant Mike Scotti that were included in the movie [[:en:Severe Clear (Film)|Severe
Video clip showing US Marines direct artillery fire towards Iraqi units during 2003 invasion of Iraq: Date: 26 March 2003: Source: Diary Clips from First Lieutenant Mike Scotti that were included in the movie Severe Clear: Author: First Lieutenant Mike Scotti: Permission (Reusing this file)
The 2003 invasion of Iraq [b] was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion began on 20 March 2003 and lasted just over one month, [ 24 ] including 26 days of major combat operations, in which a United States-led combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded the Republic of Iraq .
The film is the first documentary account of the 2003 invasion of Iraq to be produced by the soldiers themselves. [1] The film follows three New Hampshire Army National Guard soldiers before, during, and after their deployment to Iraq about a year after the invasion.
The Battle of Baghdad, also known as the Fall of Baghdad, was a military engagement that took place in Baghdad in early April 2003, as part of the invasion of Iraq. Three weeks into the invasion of Iraq, Coalition Forces Land Component Command elements, led by the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division, captured Baghdad. Over 2,000 Iraqi soldiers as ...
Light machine gun 7.62×39mm: Zastava M72 [14] Yugoslavia: Light machine gun 7.62×39mm: Al-Quds [13] Iraq: Light machine gun 7.62×39mm: Locally produced copy of the Zastava M72. [14] SG-43 Goryunov Soviet Union: Medium machine gun: 7.62×54mmR: SGM variant used. [5] PK machine gun [7] [page needed] [15] Soviet Union: General-purpose machine ...
One US Marine, Corporal Mark Evnin, was killed during the battle when he was mortally wounded by Iraqi machine gun fire. In a last attempt to drive off the attackers, Iraqi soldiers attempted to charge the American tanks with small arms and machine guns, but were cut down by American tank fire, and the 1st Marine Division advanced into Al Kut.