File:UStanks baghdad 2003.JPEG
Summary
BAGHDAD, IRAQ (November 2003) - U.S. Army (USA) M1A1 Abrams MBT (Main Battle Tank), and personnel from A Company (CO), Task Force 1st Battalion, 35th Armor Regiment (1-35 Armor), 2nd Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 1st Armored Division (AD), pose for a photo under the "Hands of Victory" in Ceremony Square, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad" class="extiw" title="w:Baghdad">Baghdad</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" class="extiw" title="w:Iraq">Iraq</a> during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The Hands of Victory monument built at the end of the Iran-Iraq war marks the entrance to a large parade ground in central Baghdad. The hand and arm are modeled after former dictator Saddam Husseins own and surrounded with thousands of Iranian helmets taken from the battlefield. The swords made from the guns of dead Iraqi soldiers, melted and recast into the 24-ton blades.
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- 2003 in the United States
- American Idiot
- Criticism of the Iraq War
- History of the M1 Abrams
- History of the United States (1991–present)
- Iraq War
- Iraqi Perspectives Project
- Legitimacy of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
- List of coalition military operations of the Iraq War
- List of people associated with the 2003 invasion of Iraq
- Modern usage of al-Qādisiyyah
- Popular opinion in the United States on the invasion of Iraq
- Tanks of the United States
- Timeline of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
- Timeline of the Iraq War
- United Nations Security Council and the Iraq War
- Views on the 2003 invasion of Iraq