Ambush Alley: The Most Extraordinary Battle of the Iraq War (39 page)

Ambush Alley viewed from the southern bridge. (
Courtesy of CW04
David Dunfee)

The Alamo—the house in Ambush Alley held by the Charlie Company Marines. (
Courtesy of CW04
David Dunfee)

Gunnery Sergeant Greg Wright next to an Iraqi mural depicting 9/11. (
Courtesy of Gunnery
Sergeant Randy Howard
)

Staff Sergeant Aaron Harrell pulling security by the mud bog. (
Courtesy of Gunnery Sergeant
Randy Howard)

A Bravo Company Humvee in an alleyway in eastern Nasiriyah. (
Courtesy of CW04 David
Dunfee)

Captain Cubas’s tank stuck in the mud bog in eastern Nasiriyah. (
Courtesy of Gunnery
Sergent Randy Howard
)

View from Charlie Company’s position at the northern bridge. On the far left of the picture is the burning track 211, moments after it has been hit by an RPG in Ambush Alley. (U.S. Marine Corps photo)

The dead and wounded from Charlie Company being evacuated from the northern bridge. (
Courtesy of Major
Eric Garcia)

The ambulance carrying a top Iraqi commander that tried to head back into Nasiriyah on the night of March 23, 2003, before it was stopped by Captain Dyer and the crews of Team Tank. (
Courtesy of Major Eric
Garcia)

Memorial service for Marines killed in Nasiriyah. (
Courtesy of CW04 David Dunfee
)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

TIM PRITCHARD is a London-based journalist and filmmaker who has made several award-winning documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, and the Discovery Channel. This is his first book.

Copyright © 2005 by Tim Pritchard

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pritchard, Tim, journalist.
Ambush alley : the most extraordinary battle of the Iraq war / Tim Pritchard.
p. : ill., maps ; cm.
Includes index.

1. Iraq War, 2003—Campaigns. 2. Iraq War, 2003—Personal narratives, American.
3. Pritchard, Tim, journalist. I. Title.
DS79.76.P755 2005
956.7044’342—dc22 2005043033

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