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Author Lacey, Jim, 1958- author.

Title Takedown : the 3rd Infantry Division's Twenty-One Day Assault on Baghdad / by Jim Lacey
Published Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2007]

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Contents Introduction -- The colonels' war -- The breach (20-21 March) -- First clash: Tallil Air Base (21 March) -- The Ba'ath armies -- Samawah: we planned a parade (22-24 March) -- Battle of the LOCs (22-30 March) -- Objective rams (22-23 March) -- The escarpment (23-24 March) -- Ambush alley (24-25 March) -- "Tell Saddam we're winning" -- Najaf: the hornets' nest (25-27 March) -- Al Kifl (26-29 March) -- Riding to the cavalry's rescue (27-29 March) -- The dark hours -- Karbala (1 April) -- Objective peach (2 April) -- The other side of the hill -- Saints and south (3-5 April) -- The cavalry heads west (3-7 April) -- Before the crash: under the sniper's scope -- Baghdad International Airport (4-5 April) -- Thunder run I (5 April) -- Titans (4-8 April) -- Thunder run II: collapse of the regime (7 April) -- Reflections -- Index
Summary Over time the impression has grown that the 2003 invasion of Iraq met with little resistance and that, with few exceptions, the Iraqi army simply melted away. As this book clearly shows, nothing could be further from the truth. In its drive to capture Baghdad, the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division was in nearly constant combat for twenty-one days. While Americans were watching Saddam's statue being torn down on TV, a brigade of the 3rd ID was on the verge of being overrun by Iraqi Republican Guard units trying to escape north. Told to hold two bridges in his sector, a brigade commander ha
Analysis Iraq War, 2003-
United States // Army // Infantry Division, 3rd
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject United States. Army. Infantry Division, 3rd.
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Subject Documentary photography.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Political aspects
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Social aspects
documentary photography.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Documentary photography
Social aspects
Golfkrieg 2003
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
Iraq
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LC no. 2006036392
ISBN 9781612514345
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