Third battalion Fourth Marine on their
way to Baghdad.
The battle for the Diyala bridge lasted
for two days. The Diyala bridge, a
major gateway into the southeastern sector of the
city. One of the bridge's main pylons
had been badly damaged, and armored vehicles could not move over it. So after
the first day of fighting on April 6, the battalion dug itself into the southern
side for the night, giving itself time to plan an-infantry assault over the span
the next morning.In the morning, the battalion released another round of heavy
artillery barrages to soften up the opposition on the northern side of the
river. In the fighting, two marines were killed and four wounded when an
artillery shell hit their armored vehicle on the southern side of the
bridge… Marines taking the control of the key Diyala bridge, down in the
street of about 200 yards nearly a half dozen vehicles were stopped by gunfire.
When the firing stopped, there were nearly a dozen corpses, all but two of which
had no apparent military clothing or weapons. Other iraqi civilians come out of
the residential house with a white flag moving out of the combat zone.
The Third battalion Fourth Marine in
Baghdad covering the face of the statue of Saddam Hussein with an american flag
who was taken from the Pentagon after september 11
attack.