Risking their lives to save another, Lt. Jeffrey Goodman and Lance Cpl.
Jorge Sanchez of the 2nd Tank Battalion drag a wounded civilian to safety
after he was aught in the midst of battle on the road to Baghdad.






With the sunlight obliterated by a late March sandstorm, red and orange
skies creted an eerie and ominous welcome to troops of the 3rd Infantry
Division as they advanced on Al Kifl.





With the sunlight obliterated by a late March sandstorm, red and orange
skies creted an eerie and ominous welcome to troops of the 3rd Infantry
Division as they advanced on Al Kifl.





Caught in crossfire from the 3rd Intantry Division fighting through Northern
Baghdad, a woman huddles in an open ditch with two terrified and bloodstained
children.






An Iraqi soldier's struggle for life is brief, and ultimately doomed after U.S.
soldiers open fire on a truck in northern Baghdad. As flames burn thorugh the
back of his uniform, he rolls out of the vehicle onto his dead companion - only
to die in another burst of gunfire seconds later.





Taking advantage of the calm, Capt. Andy MacLean rests after a night of fierce
fighting near Karbala. Two weeks into the war, quiet moments are seldom felt but
gratefully accepted.





A pained stare, plastic ties and muddy, shoeless feet. In war, everyone is
suspect. After a short firefight in Sayyid Muhammad, these men were rounded up, stripped, interrogated and later released.





Surrounded by the smoke of destroyed Iraqi miliary equipment, Air Force Lt. John
Blocher -- assigned to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team -- saves ammunition by using
a recovered Iraqi-issued AK-47.






Soles on the worn-out civilian shoes of dead Iraqi soldiers tell the story of an
ill-equiped army in a David-and-Goliath batttle for their lives.






Squad leader and Staff Sgt. Lonnie Roberts stands at attention as troops from
the 3rd Brigade Combat Team pay last respects to their fallen comrade, Pvt.
Gregory Huxley, during a memorial for the 19-year-old in Baghdad.

Screaming in pain from 10-day-old burns received during an aerial attack on
Baghdad, Aya Hamad is comforted by her mother, Eimin Fvied. Later discovered by
U.S. troops, the 6-year-old was transported to a local hospital for treatment.





After three weeks and 300-plus miles of speed-and-maneuver warfare, Master
Gunnery Sgt. Frank Cordero savors the first letters from his wife, Melissa. "I
held that first one for about five minutes...Just to smell it and hold it."





After weeks on their desert march to Baghdad, Spc. George Gillette and
Spc. Robert Boucher take a chapter from boyhood and leap into the
beckoning water of an irrigation pond.






Walking past the bodies of Iraqi soldiers, a member of the 3rd Brigade Combat
Team asks quitely, "Why do we do these things to one another?"






After weeks on their desert march to Baghdad, Spc. George Gillette and
Spc. Robert Boucher take a chapter from boyhood and leap into the
beckoning water of an irrigation pond.






Walking past the bodies of Iraqi soldiers, a member of the 3rd Brigade Combat
Team asks quitely, "Why do we do these things to one another?"






Wounded in an aerial bombing of Baghdad and seeking aid, Iraqi civilians raise
their hands pleadingly toward advancing troops of the 3rd Infantry Division.

bulls-eye drawn on a confiscated picture of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
speaks volumes as U.S. troops from the 3rd Infantry Division clear out
remanants from a building in Al Kifl.






After a decade of uncertainty, Mohammad Bakar Whathiq is finally able to mourn
his brother, a political dissident, discovered with others in a mass grave
outside Baghdad. Long after his capture, the evil inflicted by Saddam Hussein on
this countrymen will continue.






Standing proudly, 10-year-oldUniss Mohammad Salman was among students
returning to Al Amtithal Elemtary School, one of the first in the city of
reopen after the invasion of Baghdad.






Killed during a thwarted bank heist, the eyes of the would-be robber are
closed one last time. Later, he was moved into a Baghdad street where he
was made a public example. "This is what happens when you steal," said one
man.