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 women reach out with empty water containers as British soldiers arrive to supply the outskirts of Iraqi's southern city of Basra with drinking water.
The bodies of dead Iraqis killed in overnight bombings lay on stretchers outside the morgue at Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital. U.S. infantry occupied part of Baghdad's airport Friday and sealed the entrance closest to the capital.
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.
U.S. Marines of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 5, Pfc. James Emerson of Billings, Mont., right, and Cpl. Kourtney Redmond of Chicago, yell over the loud engine noise as they travel further north into Iraq.
Lt. Jeffrey Goodman, left, and Lance Cpl. Jorge Sanchez, drag a wounded civilian away from his burning vehicle during an advance on Baghdad by the 2nd Tank Battalion. The man was injured when he raced into the midst of a battle.
A semi-trailer truck full of ammunition is exploded by the Marines of the Second Tank Battalion during an advance on the outskirts of Baghdad
U.S. Marines fire artillery near the town of Kut, Iraq. U.S. forces battled suicide attacks and fought at close range with Republican Guard fighters and Baath Party paramilitaries.
A bombed-out plane shows the aftermath of overnight fighting for control of Saddam International Airport early Friday, April 4, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq.
Four Iraqi men place their hands on their heads as they surrender, to U.S. Marines, during fighting in the town of Kut. U.S. Marines battled suicide attacks and fought at close range with Republican Guard fighters and Baath Party irregulars Thursday in Kut, but many civilians waved white flags and welcomed the troops.
Elements of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine regiment, search the town of Al Azaziyah. An unspecified number of soldiers with the Republican Guard were captured and a cache of muntions, dicovered in a school, was destroyed.
On the road north towards Baghdad, an Iraqi T-55 tank, destroyed by a U.S.Marine M1A1 tank, burns. Kilo Company of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, took the town of Al Azaziyah. Two Marines suffered non-life threatening injuries during the firefight. An unspecified number of Republican Guard soldiers were captured.
Fires from secondary explosions of an Iraqi SA-6 surface-to-air missile burn on the outskirts of Karbala, Iraq. Missiles on board the SA-6 "cooked off" and ignited, causing a large explosion which threw debris in every direction.
A fuel tank burns in a hangar at Saddam International Airport near Baghdad Friday morning, April 4, 2003, as a Bradley fighting vehicle keeps watch. U.S. infantry occupied part of the airport early Friday.
Officers of U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 69th Regiment Armor Task Force 3-69, sit atop the commanding officer's tank, talking over operational status as the task force continued the taking of the Saddam Hussein International Airport early Friday morning, April 4, 2003. The fighting for the airport began when Charlie Company/2-7 Infantry found a hole in the perimeter wall and entered the airfield.
U.S. Army medics with the 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment, treat an Iraqi army captain who was wounded and taken prisoner of war near Baghdad. The officer was later reported to have died.
Members of 23 Engineer Regimental Diving Team check the structure of a waterway bridge outside Basra for possible damage and mines.
An engineer from the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment places an explosive charge on a bomblet found in the desert near the battalion's base in the southern Iraqi oilfields, Friday, April 4, 2003. The region is littered with unexploded ordnance, including anti-tank and anti-personnel mines which are detonated in place for safety.
Lance Cpl. Jose Urena of Nogales, Ariz., with India Co., 3rd Batt., 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, patrols an intersection with a portrait of Saddam Hussein in Numaniyah, Iraq.
Members of the British A company Mortar Platoon, 1 Parachute Regiment, fire their mortar, as they prepare a defensive position just outside Basra, southern Iraq.