Smoke turns the night sky yellow over Baghdad during the first day of the phase of the war termed "shock and awe" by U.S. military officials.
Major David "Bull" Gurfein, of New York City, with 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, tears down a portrait of Saddam Hussein in the southern border city of Safwan, Iraq.
Explosions are seen over Baghdad during the night Friday.
A building erupts in a fireball during heavy bombardment of Baghdad by US-led forces.
North of Kuwait City, a U.S. Marine aboard an armored personnel carrier waves as he crosses the DMZ which separates Kuwait from Iraq.
Sgt. Jesse Lanter of Ft. Mill, S.C., carries Cpl. Barry Lange of Portland, Ore. off the battlefield after the group engaged Iraqi soldiers in gunfire Friday.
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.
A government building burns during heavy bombardment of Baghdad on Friday.
Marine Pvt. Danny Stark of California receives a blessing from Navy Chaplain Lt. Anthony Bezy just three hours before troops moved forward into Iraq.
Members of India Co., 3rd Batt., 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, engage Iraqi soldiers in gunfire at the headquarters of the Iraqi 51st and 32nd mechanized infantry divisions near Az Bayer, Iraq on Friday, March 21, 2003.
British soldiers of 40 Commando, Royal Marines, on guard after they took the Al-Faw Peninsula oil installations in southern Iraq on Friday. Allied troops were advancing through the deserts of southern Iraq Friday.
CBS News Correspondent John Roberts is keeping up with the First Marine Division, Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion with the help of a Humvee. The specially outfitted Humvee has 5 video cameras that can capture the action live, day or night, in any direction.
First Lt. Eric Hooper, with the U.S. Army A 3-7 Infantry, looks through the dust after crossing into Iraq from Kuwait Friday. Hooper is from Albany, Ga.
U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit take position and aim their rifles after hearing the sound of gunfire in southern Iraq on Friday. The black smoke billows from an oil field on the horizon.
Navy Corpsmen tend to an Iraqi prisoner wounded as Marines took control of an oil pumping station early Friday in southern Iraq.
Iraqi interior minister Mahmoud Diab Al-Ahmad waves an AK 47 during a press conference at the Ministry of Information in Baghdad.
Iraqi soldiers, waving white flags and raising their arms, attempt to surrender to passing journalists outside the demilitarized zone in southern Iraq.
A U.S. Marine standing on his military vehicle drives past a portrait of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in Safwan, southern Iraq.
Protesters raise their red-painted hands outside the U.S. Consulate in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Friday, March 21, 2003. More than 60,000 people took part in a march against the U.S.-led war against Iraq.
A U.S. Cobra helicopter fires a missile at Iraqi positions in the DMZ between Iraq and Kuwait at Abdali crossing border, north of Kuwait city Friday, March 21, 2003.