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The true story of the bloodiest battle in the campaign to oust Saddam Hussein

It began on March 23, 2003, a clear, sunny Sunday morning in the city of An Nasiriyah, Iraq, where members of the 507th Maintenance Company were stationed during Operation Enduring Freedom.
It would end one week later as the bloodiest battle in the campaign to oust Saddam Hussein…

Terrorist insurgents ambushed the 507th at first light, killing and wounding twenty-one soldiers and taking six prisoners, including Private Jessica Lynch. When night fell, eighteen Marines had given their lives in what would become the battle for An Nasiriyah.

For the next week, An Nasiriyah was rocked with gun and mortar fire, as the marines of Task Force Tarawa fought to wrest control of the city from Saddam’s fanatical followers. Fighting street by street and building to building, the Marines slugged it out, pushing the enemy back and taking losses all along the way. The final, crushing blow was delivered by Special Forces—who launched a daring raid on Saddam Hospital, where they rescued the battered Private Lynch, and proved to the long-suffering residents of An Nasiriyah that they no longer had to live under the shadow of fear.

This the story of the battle for “The Nas,” as seen through the eyes of those who were there: Marines, soldiers, and newsmen who made it through those terrible seven days, and would never forget what they experienced, what they learned—or those they lost in the name of freedom