Images Of War: The Ground War

U.S. Army 3rd infantry division launches missiles to pound Iraq's Republican Guard, the most loyal force to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in the suburbs of Karbala, Iraq, Wednesday, April 2, 2003.

A soldier with Task Force 2-69 Armor of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Benning, Ga., walks past the bodies of dead Iraqi soldiers in a desert somewhere in Iraq Monday, March 24, 2003.

A U.S. aircraft security soldier looks at the skies over Iraq darkened with smoke from burning oil fields, from an airbase in Kuwait, Sunday March 23, 2003.

An Iraqi soldier lies dead in a trench after combat with British troops in the Al Faw peninsular, southern Iraq, Saturday, March 22, 2003.

A British Royal Marine from 42 Commando fires a Milan wire-guided missile at an Iraqi position on the Al Faw peninsula, southern Iraq, Friday, March 21, 2003.

U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, take cover after coming upon a mortar attack during an orange sandstorm on a road south of Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, March 26, 2003.

A U.S. Marines Assault Amphibian Battalion of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Division, passes a road sign pointing the way to Baghdad Thursday, March 27, 2003, in Iraq.

U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit help an Iraqi soldier with water from a canteen in southern Iraq, on Friday, March 21, 2003. Some 200 Iraqi soldiers surrendered to the U.S. 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit just after an hour after it crossed the border into Iraq from northern Kuwait.

An American soldier held in connection with a grenade and small-arms attack that injured at least 16 U.S. soldiers at Camp Pennsylvania in northern Kuwait. Eleven of the injured were hurt so seriously they had to be choppered out of the camp.

U.S. Marines from the 3rd Batt., 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division take cover as they search an area near Az Bayr, Iraq, Saturday, March 22, 2003. The U.S. -led coalition continues war missions Sunday, with American forces progressing 150 miles (240 kilometers) into Iraq, halfway to Baghdad.

A dead Iraqi soldier is covered by a blanket on a road in the Al Faw peninsula where British Marines from 40 and 42 commando are operating, Saturday March 22, 2003.

Capt. Andy MacLean, fire support officer for Task Force 2-69 Armor Homebase as part of thje 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Benning, Ga., rides in a 113 APC as troops moved further toward their first objective somewhere in Iraq, Friday, March 21, 2003.

Troops watch as another convoy of U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division troops passes by at dusk, pushing deeper into Iraq from the south Saturday, March 22, 2003.

Iraqi soldier surrender to India Co., 3rd Batt., 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division following a gunfight at the headquarters of the Iraqi 51st and 32nd mechanized infantry divisions near Az Bayer, Iraq on Friday, March 21, 2003.

Maj David "Bull" Gurfein, of New York City, right, with 1st Marine Expeditionnary Force, tears down a portrait of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in the southern border city of Safwan, Iraq, Friday, March 21, 2003.

Lt. Col. Bobby Towery, left, kneels by two young girls with their family's herd of sheep that his convoy came across shortly after crossing the Iraqi border Friday, March 21, 2003. Towery and his driver spotted what looked like two figures that ducked to the ground as the convoy approached. Towery and his soldiers routed their convoy around the sheep herd as they continued to their objective.

U.S. Army soldiers from A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment approach an injured woman who was caught in the crossfire with Iraqi forces over the Euphrates River when the U.S. Army siezed a bridge in Al Hindiyah. The woman, who was near a dead civilian man, was bleeding and apparently shot in the buttock.

Third ID medic Sgt. Mark Strunk attends to a wounded Iraq soldier in a small town outside Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday March 26, 2003.

Men from the British Royal Marines 40 Commando take positions in a building as they progress towards enemy positions, in Al Faw, Southern Iraq, in this Saturday March 22 photo.

U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, return fire after coming upon a mortar attack during an orange sandstorm on a road south of Baghdad on Wednesday, March 26, 2003.