Archive photo of the day
Entering Baghdad, 2003
Stars and Stripes
January 5, 2025
Baghdad, Iraq, April 8, 2003: A Marine mans a M-240G machine gun on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, as smoke from a burning building billows by. The Marines entered the city witness to the destruction by air power. Tanks, armored vehicles and artillery were destroyed all along the routes into the city.