Images Of War: Battle For Baghdad

Task Force 2-69 Armor, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Benning Georgia is on the front line of the Army advance on northern Baghdad, Sunday, April 6, 2003.

A wounded Iraqi soldier tries to extinguish the flames on his back after being caught Sunday, April 6, 2003, trying to flee street fighting in northern Baghdad. He was shot dead seconds after this photo was made. The soldier at right is already dead.

U.S. Marines from the 3rd Batallion yell to urge infantrymen to rush across the damaged Baghdad Highway Bridge, Monday, April 7, 2003, as they move forward into the city while under fire in the southeastern outskirts of Baghdad.

A soldier with Charlie Company 2-7 Infantry tasked with the 3-69 Task Force, waves a victory sign from the upper floor of one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in Baghdad to other infantry soldiers as the Task Force takes control of the palace complex, Monday, April 7, 2003 in Baghdad.

Iraqis soldiers pose on the top of the wreckage of an armored personel carrier that was destroyed during a gun battle in Baghdad Saturday, April 5, 2003.

Iraqi POWs are numbered with a marker as they are processed at a hangar Friday, April 4, 2003 after fighting at Saddam International Airport near Baghdad, Iraq.

Iraqi volunteers, seen in this image from video, stand behind a wall of sandbags Sunday, April 6, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq.

Explosions are seen through a night vision lens as the U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 69th Regiment Armor Task Force (Task Force 3-69) "Speed And Power" take Baghdad's Saddam International Airport early Friday, April 4, 2003.

Charlie Company Task Force 1-64 of the 3rd ID rolls into downtown Baghdad on Monday morning April 7, 2003.

Residents of Karbala, Iraq raise their shirts to reveal that they have no weapons as they approach a checkpoint manned by members of Task Force 2-69 Armor, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Benning Ga., Friday, April 4, 2003.

Sgt. Jarrell Isaacson , left, of Missouri and Sgt. Jeffey Hale of Indiana, rest for a moment during a day of intense fighting by the Marines of the 2nd Tank Battalion during an advance on the outskirts of Baghdad on Friday, April 4, 2003.

U.S. Army Stf. Sgt. Chad Touchett, center, relaxes with comrades from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, following a search in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces damaged after a bombing, in Baghdad.

Task Force 2-69 Armor, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Benning Georgia is on the front line of the Army advance on northern Baghdad, Sunday, April 6, 2003.

U.S. Cpl. Ward Williamson from Atlanta, GA., of the 3rd battalion, 4th Marines regiment, gives order to his platoon during combat with Iraqi gunmen to secure a key bridge into Baghdad, on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, Sunday, April 6, 2003.

U.S. Marines from the 3rd battalion, 4th regiment, take positions during combat with Iraqi gunmen to secure a key bridge into Baghdad, on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, Sunday, April 6, 2003.

Charlie Company 1-64 Task Force 3rd Infantry Divison soldiers, from left front, Sgt. Mark Strunk; Spc. Paul Helgenberger; back from left, Cpt. Jason Conroy; and Lt. Roger Gruneisen carry an injured soldier to a medivac chopper, Saturday April 5, 2003 during their advance through Baghdad, Iraq.

A destroyed Iraqi tank sits in the street of a Baghdad suburb Friday, April 4, 2003. The tank was destroyed the day before by members of 1-64 Task Force 3rd Infantry Division.

A lone Iraqi man sits in front of a poster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein outside the central bus station in downtown Baghdad, Monday, April 7, 2003.

Charlie Company 1st Sgt. Jose Mercado looks at a statue of Saddam Hussein that his company destroyed only minutes before, in downtown Baghdad Monday, April 7, 2003.

Soldiers with Charlie Company 2-7 Infantry tasked with the 3-69 Task Force survey bomb damage while they secure one of Saddam Hussein's palaces the Task Force took control of in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 7, 2003.