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The Marines of 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, dedicated a conference room as a memorial to the Battle of Nasiriyah at their headquarters aboard Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, July 14, 2015.
According to most accounts, the small convoy intended to continue up Highway One but made a wrong turn into Nasiriyah. Iraqi forces lay in ambush near the bridge over the Euphrates.
The battle of Nasiriyah showed that the US military had underestimated the ferocity of Iraqi resistance in the southern part of the country. Check out our latest YouTube videos.
Part of that lead element was a convoy with the Army’s 507th Maintenance Company, which had made a wrong turn and veered directly into enemy-held territory. A fierce battle ensued.
20th Anniversary of the Battle of An-Nasiriyah. CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (WITN) - Active and retired Marines gathered today to honor troops who lost their lives in the battle of An-Nasiriyah.
Wednesday’s lantern convoy led participants from where the Virginia militiamen, led by Colonel Andrew Lewis started in Greenbrier County that day on October 10, 1774 to where the battle actually ...
Battle of An-Nasiriyah memorial service held on Camp Lejeune by: Cheyenne Pagan. Posted: Mar 23, 2023 / 05:40 PM EDT. Updated: Mar 23, 2023 / 05:42 PM EDT. by: Cheyenne Pagan.
The bodies of four U.S. servicemen have been found by the Marines in a shallow grave in the battle-worn city of Nasiriyah, ... in darkness in a convoy of six vehicles about 1 a.m. March 23 near ...
One group of Marines traded fire with Iraqi forces Friday amid the burning buildings of An Nasiriyah, while others pushed north of the strategic city in a grinding bumper-to-bumper movement of ...
U.S. forces faced the fiercest fight of their desert march to Baghdad yesterday when Saddam Hussein’s loyalists inflicted more than 60 causalities during ambush attacks before Marines wrested… ...
Eleven soldiers were killed March 23, 2003, in an ambush in Nasiriyah, including nine members of the 507th. Five others were wounded, and six of them were taken as prisoners of war. Piestewa was ...
The battle for the bridges in Nasiriyah began early on March 23, the fourth day of the war. ... Charlie Company, riding in a convoy of 11 amphibious assault vehicles, ...