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Previous operational pictures from 3 Commando Brigade, 7 Armoured Brigade and 16 Air Assault Brigade can be found here:

Archive 1 (the initial attack and securing Umm Qasr and the Al Faw peninsula)

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Video clips from military camera teams      
Weapons abandoned, or taken from surrendering Iraqi forces in south of the country 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery in action near Basrah    
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An RAF Regiment gunner shares
sweets with an Iraqi child

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An RAF Regiment sniper keeps watch

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Iraqis show leaflets dropped from
coalition aircraft

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An RAF Bomb Disposal officer
discusses plans with US and
RAF Regiment
colleagues
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The painstaking task of
mine clearance

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A Milan missile team of the
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
search for a target at Basrah

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A pair of Challenger 2 tanks of the
Queen's Royal Lancers in action nearby

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A Fusilier machine-gunner
keeps watch as night
falls
over Basrah
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Soldiers from 3 Para secure
a minor pipeline

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Commandos advance across
mudbanks

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M3 amphibious rigs ferry AS90
guns across a river

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Royal Marines of 40 Commando
keep watch near Basrah as
civilians pass by in safety

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Commandos advance near Basrah,
armed with the light anti-tank weapons
that helped defeat Iraqi tank attacks

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An armoured mortar vehicle of
the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
providing fire support
during action
near Basrah
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40 Commando on the
Al Faw peninsula

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Royal Marines and US Marines
on a joint patrol

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A patrol alongside one of the
waterways

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Royal Marines enter a village

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Children are understandably wary
as a check is made that no regime
paramilitaries have stayed behind

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Liberated Iraqis reassure a Royal Marine of their support

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The crew of an Irish Guards Warrior enjoy a brief rest near Basrah

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A security check point, to guard against paramilitaries
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An armourer from 42 Commando inspects Iraqi weapons recovered from
a patrol in Umm Qasr
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Weapons recovered from a patrol
in Umm Qasr
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A member of 45 Commando
stands guard in Umm Qasr
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An AS-90 of 3 RHA engages
targets near Basrah

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A Challenger 2 of the Queen's
Royal Lancers on patrol

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An Irish Guards observation post
overlooking Basrah

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A cahce of chemical warfare protective equipment was uncovered at Umm Qasr

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Specialists from the Joint NBC Regiment examine the find

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A wide variety of NBC equipment was discovered

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Marines from 42 Commando fight against a sand storm

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Marines from 42 Commando in a helicopter from 845 Squadron
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3 Commando Brigade Land Rovers passes a recently destroyed T55 in the suburbs of Abu Al Khasib

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A Sea King from 845 Squadron picks up Marines from Umm Qasr

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An AS-90 of 3 RHA engages
targets near Basrah

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Royal Marines from 42 Commando secure the area around
Umm Qasr
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Brigadier Jim Dutton of 3 Commando
Brigade talks with a young Iraqi on
a patrol in Umm Qasr

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Children demonstrate their friendliness
to a Royal Marine foot patrol from
40 Commando at Umm Qasr

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