The US Army Smashes Through the Karbala Gap to Baghdad, April 2003 - Animated
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The US 3rd Infantry Division must smash through the dangerous Karbala Gap to reach the outskirts of Baghdad. If the Iraqi Army and Republican Guard can bring their conventional forces and potential chemical weapons to bear during 3ID's dangerous passage through the gap, they will be in for a very tough fight. 75th Ranger Regiment assaults and holds the Haditha Dam.
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No one care about iraq war
This is the best series currently on TH-cam military channels, Thanks for all the work!
Around 16 min in you say southern span when the graphic shows the northern span.
Why are you making videos featuring battles from a War That Was Launched BY LIES???? Why not make videos condemning ALL THE LIES that led up to this PHONY, ONE-SIDED af WAR?! Too much critical thinking involved eh?!
Don't sign up , heritage has been compromised , and the data and your family data's could be at risk
The sniper had the once in a lifetime videogame npc-propane tank placement.
😂😂😂
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Forreal! And Mythbusters tried saying propane tanks didnt explode when shot
It was like something out of a Command & Conquer game.
@@yanciebit doesn’t but if something ignited the escaped gas it does.
"After quickly exhausting their breach charges and shotgun shells, one ranger later recalled; We turned to have a couple of guys throw a fully loaded ranger with body armor against the doors..."
I only imagine,
" Dude we're out of equipment, what should we do?"
"Throw me through it."
"WHAT??"
"I KNOW WHAT I SAID."
Don‘t tell the elf!
@@panzermuffin4611 nothin "badass" bout that when you look at the context tbh. we were being lied to and invading a country for no reason but oil. WMD my a$$. thanks Bush
"You'll have to toss me!"
Toy Story 2 moment. "Use your head" indeed.
@@barleysixseventwo6665 "But I don't wanna use my head!"
7:08 You know you've been watching every Operations Room video to date when the appearance of two A10's makes you a little nervous.. Lol.
either they obliterate the enemy, or their friends.
The A10's primary objective is to destroy its target. Its secondary objective is to target the enemy.
Lol same
15:10 god bless that reporter for being at the right place at the right time to save Sgt Stevens from drowning under the weight of his gear.
Absolutely Goddamn right. That seems to be an added advantage of having reporters on site, cause their job is to look & film, they may be more observant &, like in this case, their eyes & ears save lives. God bless the reporters & the soldiers who risk their lives for our freedoms & way of life & those that save the enemy when he has surrendered and/or wounded.
@@skullsaintdead thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain
@@CubeInspectorno
@@CubeInspectorI ain't a Christian (and not every Christian has the same interpretation of their religion as you do - morality is a personal thing, it's subjective and changes over time). I'm an atheist. And I'm Australian. No luck here, mate.
@@skullsaintdeadand presumably they are less weighted down by gear. Sure, cameras and recording equipment doesnt float, but no weapons and such...
3:37 He then rocket jumped across the river and tea bagged them.
He was subsequently awarded the Killtastrophe medal for valor.
All the guys saw it and just said "Hell yeah 😎"
@@bigchill123aeven the A-10 Warthogs saluted in recognition of such a pro gamer move
"Close only counts in Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, and Propane Tanks."
He was a SERIOUS GAMER!
@@NorthForkFisherman my first thought was 'do i remember blowing up any propane tanks in video games before 2003?'
@@edl4220 In the early 90s there were explosive barrels in Doom.
@@RCAvhstape*WHEN THE DOOM MUSIC KICKS IN!*
15:21 gigachad reporter
15:31 that reporter is a goat, like all those who saved ppl. The difference is no one expected them to do so.
He saved a jackbooted murderer taking part in an illegal war. Yayyyyy
@@Awoo- You mean a child, who didn't know any better and wanted a future for themselves, too?
He was a good man. I got to talk with him a few times before he died. I got to work on him as the medic. Nothing we could do for him.
RPG guy: Ha! You dumbass! You missed!
Sniper: I didn't miss.
RPG guy: Huh? What d- 💥
Because that’s an easy conversation to have, 1000 yards away.
@@anthonylombardo1261 and the bullet also hit the propane tank before RPG guy even noticed a bullet was fired. And there's a language barrier. But disbelief can be suspended as the comment was, in fact, a joke.
It’s like the red barrels in video games
Achievement unlocked: _The red barrel_
Announcer: Multi-kill!
What I most like to see in these battles are the acts of valor and respect for human lives, saving wounded Iraqi soldiers, the reporter jumping in the water, US and Iraqi personnel working together to prevent a catastrophic dam breach, in all that destruction, it's nice to see humanity in those people, these are the true war heroes.
Im honestly surprised the iraqi didnt try to sabotage
That's honestly my favorite part. War is hell, but it's nothing if not good at showing the good of humanity, even in all its futility. We are slaves to irony.
In 2006 three soldiers from the 101st Airborne 1/502IN would be captured and killed just down from this very bridge. Jim Frederick wrote a book called "Black Heats: One Platoon's Decent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death"
Army PFC Kristian Menchaca
Army PFC Thomas Tucker
Army SPC David Babineau
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2006_abduction_of_United_States_soldiers_in_Iraq
If Im not mistaken, those were the snipers that got killed and their M40's taken from them
@@CCM1199 You are mistaken, these were PFCs set up in a checkpoint to monitor traffic over the damn.
@@CCM1199weren't there some marine snipers that got compromised and looted?
I dont think you are wrong per say @@matthiasthulman4058I think you have your conflicts muddled Mr Thulman
"The Americans are not in Baghdad. The Americans are not in Baghdad." - Comically Ali, as an Abrams drives past in the background.
Mostly peaceful invasions.
Comically ?
His actual nickname is Chemical Ali
@@xahmadx6442 Different person.
Comically Ali was the nickname given to Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf. Sadaam's Minister of Information and spokesman for the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
@@chrisbingley oh
Sorry I was wrong
Honestly they should have nicknamed him copium Ali
@@xahmadx6442 It's an easy mistake to make.
When you guys eventually do the Thunder Run into Baghdad, I know the tank commander of the #3 tank in the advancing column!
I've read their book!
Cool!
@@Skorpychan Can You Please Tell Me What Book ?.
@@TwoFace798 Heavy Metal: A Tank Company's Guide To Iraq.
@@Skorpychan Thank You.
In the Japanese Army, when you run out of ammo, you ARE the ammo
In the US Army, when you run out of breaching charges, you ARE the breaching charge.
Love it.
And that Haditha counterattack. And here I was thinking the yolo into gun fire like a buncha dingos was only something you saw from video game AI.......yikes.
Johnson, you missed! You hit a propane tank behi-…. Oh nevermind.
Task failed successfully.
The sniper was probably surprised it actually worked.
@@richarddr1234 I would be a little surprised, too. I've seen a propane tank (pretty big one) hit with several .50 cal rounds which just caused half inch leaks to appear. The tank finally went up when someone got lucky and... I honestly can't remember which, caused a spark, fired a tracer or fired an incendiary round. I don't remember or really didn't know as I was just a spectator and it was more than 25 years ago. Of course in a real battle, there could be all kinds of hot debris and flaming wreckage flying about to ignite the escaping gas.
A Mythbusters segment debuked James Bond easily turning a propane tank into a bomb with his 9mm pistol. Just doesn't happen.
No one:
Operations Room: Just before dawn...
15:22 Props to the reporter saving Stevens.
It’s so weird to watch a historical video about events that played out while I was in Basic Training.
I was at Sill on 9-11. Half of my unit went to 3ID. Half of us went 1-41 (seen in this video) and the other half (my half) 1-9. It still boggles my mind to see people I know (or knew since some of us have passed since then) on a "history" TH-cam channel. My brain doesn't feel old, but I did have a lot of confusion as to why my shoulder was KILLING me after my first round of golf for the year this passed weekend.
I was at objective peach and objective Jenkins… 2nd platoon B co 3-7 infantry.
@@hillogical glory’s guns saved our asses at el kief (objective Jenkins), along with our bfist team
I'm waiting for them to cover events in Afghanistan in 2011-12 (in which I was in lol)
@soup31314 hell yeah!
As a Vet of this ACTUAL event. Was part of Task Force 3-15 (A Co 3-15 INF) and ran the Thunder Runs to the airport and all the way to Objective Moe where we held the highway junction area for several days.
However several days before reaching Baghdad was the route through Al Hilah and the Karbala Gap area. Video I shot with my Sony Hi8 camcorder is on my channel.
Why were you there? How do you feel about the fact that the US government has now admitted that there were in fact no weapons of mass destruction? How do you feel about part of the murder (directly or indirectly) of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. Destabilizing an entire region, and sowing the seeds of failure.
No one is replying to you because your understanding of world events is limited. VERY limited. So its not worth anyones time at this point in history, with the gift of hindsight, to engage someone like you.
@@StephenOConnell-tz5zw pathetic. "I have a great answer but I wont just because I am sad".
@@ME911119And Aloha Snackbar to you Mohammed.
@@ME911119 Unlike Stephen, I do have some time to waste on explaining why you're flat out wrong.
The Kurds know very intimately that Saddam DID have WMDs, considering he used WMDs, most well known being Sarin gas, against the Kurdish people. Saddam also used WMDs against the Iranians in his war with Iran, killing or wounding more than 100,000 Iranians.
The only reason no noteworthy stockpiles were captured is because, like how he had much of his air force sent to Iran for "safekeeping", Saddam had them shipped to Syria for "safekeeping". Once he was ousted from power, the Syrian kept them and some were eventually used in the still ongoing civil war there before being destroyed under UN supervision.
Hundreds of thousands of innocent lives? Nice exaggeration. The Iraq War claimed the lives of a little over 100,000 Iraqi civilians. A large portion were the result of fanatical and extremist insurgents while far fewer were due to the Coalition. Roughly the same number of civilians died due to the Iran-Iraq war, which was started by Saddam. Let's not forget the rape and pillage of Kuwait due to Saddam's greed.
You think America destabilized the Middle East? Then you know nothing about the history of the Middle East. The British and French are responsible for destabilizing the region by arbitrarily dividing up their imperial colonies without care for ethnic, religious, or cultural worries.
Seeds of Failure? That's why Iraq is the third most electoral democratic country in the Middle East, right? Because the US "failed" in its objective on ousting Saddam and installing a democratic government.
Clearly, your grasp on history is, to use your own word, pathetic. Now then, I've expended what time I had to waste on you so I bid you good day.
um…I don’t think that propane tank was hit by accident…
I dont think anyone with experience would intentionally shoot a propane tank expecting it to stop someone from shooting back at them. Thats like aiming for the hand to stop the bad guy from shooting you, nobody would intentionally do that.
Probably not. It’s not like video games where you aim for the red barrels. But, reality is unrealistic sometimes.
Based on war footage I've seen both fps and from various filming angles. most of the time they aim towards the enemy. Not expecting to hit anyone. Suppress suppress wait for the air strike.
Propane tanks do not explode due to rifle fire. Even with tracer rounds. Physically impossible. This story is bullshit as are all the armchair warriors pretending they know how it happened. It didn't. And you are clowns who never served.
@@gladlawson61 A Sniper? Not likely, he was either aiming to kill or maim, either he missed or somehow blew up the tank.
Seeing this kind of coordinated fire between artillery, air, and armor is really something else
There were not engineers that were in the boats, it was the dismounts from 3rd platoon 3/7 infantry.
B co 3/7 infantry dismounts did not move that far away from the bridge we were at the canal. Where we cleared the median hq.
The Iraqis on the north had no idea that our thermals could see them.
After we captured the bridge we found a copy of the battle plans, and the defensive positions. It was these plans that change the plan from encircling Baghdad to the thunder runs.
Object saints is where sfc smith was killed, along with our embedded reporter.
"The demoralized commandos are easily beaten off" oh okay well that's nice for them isn't it I didn't get that kind of service when I was in
"69th armored regiment moves towards objective peach" 🤔
Shane Gillis shaking his fist in the air: “You make me do cum!!”
@@JoeTheis 69th Regiment is supposed to penetrate obj peach?🤨
THATS MY UNIT! @11:25 !! 1-41 Fiend Artillery 💥
Very well done. I was stationed at the Haditha Dam for 7 months in 2005. I didn't know a lot of that history. Thanks.
Great video. I was there 21 years ago with the 101st Airborne Division Artillery. We spent 2 days attached to 3rd Infantry Division shooting missions outside Karbala. Thanks for the great analysis.
Rock of The Marne, Raiders First, Speed and Power! Enjoyed watching my old unit in this.
21:05 I love the history side of TH-cam the WW2 channel just covered the bridge of Remagen the other week!
Now they just posted the weekly episode today showing the break out
My reaction too lol
We are quite fortunate to live in such times we can watch and learn these things for free
12:45 what do you mean overrun the tank? What was their plan? 1) Bum-rush damaged tank while it is covered by 8 more fully functional tanks 2) ??? 3) Profit ?
4. Don't get shot in the back by your de-humanised CO?
Totally forgot that was a thing
How the hell could someone come up with an idea of fighting American armors in the darkness without thermals?! My eyebrow raised when I heard that.
Chrisblack: Parachute flares perhaps. The old-fashioned way.
This was the United States first major action after Vietnam. That’s 20 years difference. Nobody had the shit we had at this point. GPS is why US armor was able to outflank the Iraqis at the battle of 73 Eastings. Nobody could comprehend the technology we were bringing to bare at that point.
@@Cucker_Tarlson56 No, the Battle of 73 Easting was the Gulf War, the first major action since Vietnam and 10 years before the battle in this video. The Iraqis should've remembered what happened to them in 1990. I give them props for being brave though. And at this point they were defending their capitol, so it makes sense they'd fight harder and take more risks.
And this was after losing hard during Desert Storm under similar conditions. They had a decade to improve on this
@@joost00555their mistake was trusting that the Americans will not invade on a bullshit lie
The courage of the Iraqi soldiers is commendable, it is a tragedy that so many were deceived into readily giving their lives for a tyrant.
They never stood a chance.
NO respect for the enemy !
Their tactics are laughable, though.
Many of them didn't have a choice
When they did they surrendered
Sand people are known for many things. Brains is not one of them.
Every video you've made should be in History classes across the U.S.
Unironically this is extremely educational content for any US History class.
problem is they do tend to be abit bias towards in us in these vids without appearing like it
Not just the US.
I like this type of stuff, but the average person doesn't need to know any of this. There's much more important events to learn.
@@greyfells2829 Exactly, it's at the level of detail where it's perfect for enthusiasts and horrible for the average classroom.
This was a combat engineers battle, saving bridges and dams one mouthful of chewing tobacco at a time.
This is literally the only channel I never skip the ads on, purely out of respect. Even learning about Albert and Robert through the spot for my heritage was cool. Love this channel.
I remember my unit crossing that bridge. They were still fighting at Objective Peach. Fun day.
I remeber the traffic jam on the west side of the bridge as we waited for the boats to cross, then we had to clear spider holes on the side of the road, we finally stopped after our co’s track killed 3 bmp along the canal
16:30 first time I've ever heard my MOS be mention at all
Man. Its hard to believe that the stuff i was doing in my 20's is now making it legitimately into the history books.
No shit right… crazy i remeber my platoon sgt saying it would be part of history…
This channel produces the best depictions of military battles on the internet. Thanks for another excellent video!
Using a fully armored Ranger as a battering ram is the most D&D thing I've ever heard of IRL.
Just realized the forces for the assault on Debecka Pass are seen in the North west portion of the battle map. I knew I recognized that lineup of forces.
I remember being there, I feel old now, thanks
I remember crossing that bridge during the invasion, it was wild. Sgt stevens of a1-30 attached to 3-7 took out an artillery piece during the counter attack. He blasted that thing with a tow missile from his Bradley. Saved a bunch of lives that day patiently waiting in the rear until all units have crossed. They thought they were sneaky but not as sneaky as sgt Stevens Bradley and crew!
I am just lost for words at the total incapability of the Iraqi army. Comparing the casualty rates makes me think of the conquistadors or other colonial wars where the natives had mass casualties against a smaller western army.
The conquistadors were not the only ones engaged in the fighting, they had armies of Tlaxcalan men who did a good portion of the lifting for them.
The Iraqi army was in a pretty bad posture
Not only was it starved for 13 years
It was suprise attacked with overwhelming power and had a huge technological disadvantage on top of that they had a brutal dictator breathing down their neck with many of them not wanting to die for him
@@xahmadx6442"surprise attack"
6 months of build up and a huge airbombment and an ultimatum before invading is not surprise in any way.
@@user-vp9lc9up6v that wasn't always the case
@RK-cj4oc The coalition forces made progress significantly faster than the Iraqi command expected them to, which led to surprised Iraqi units in 1991, as many formations weren't prepared to fight as they believed they were safe in the far rear
In 2003, the Iraqis expected another air campaign that would last for weeks before ground forces moved into Iraq, but this didn't happen. That's how the US achieved surprise in both campaigns in different ways
As always amazing work. Thanks!
Thank you for another excellently researched and presented - Documentary. True unbiased, honest historical battle reporting.
Top notch content 👊🏼
Great content as usual 👏
I haven't gotten to the end yet but I sure hope to get that reporter's name that jumped in the water. Great presentation as always.
trying to find that info myself
Awesome as always. That push through the desert done by the 3rd’s Armored Divisions was something to behold.
Make a video game with this kinda art. Would buy.
Great video thanks
Hey there, i really appreciate the time you put into making each of these videos and I recommend this channel to friends. Have you considered releasing a version of these videos that do not have background music? the horn sound has become quite distracting since the track is a short loop that repeats many times per episode.
Can't wait to hear what you have to say about "The Thunder Runs."
Excellent video!
Being an engineer flying into active war zones to repair critical infrastructure has to be one of the most bad ass jobs ever.
I really respect the hustle and I get that Sponsorships are super important to YTer's income, but I would rather fight the Coalition forces with a rock than willingly give my DNA to a private company. They'll have to come and get it themselves.
Anyway, great video! Keep up the awesome content.
Wow, are we related?! Anthony is my dad, too!
Yes brother
@@TheOperationsRoomcan I be your brother pretty please?!
@@TheOperationsRoom Funnily enough, both our parent's birth years match! We might not be related but I'd hazard a guess you may have a sibling born in the 70s..
Hey man, genetically we’re all distant cousins anyways
Luke, I am your father.
Awesome! This is what the history channel should be!
I later lived at a future platoon patrol base on the west side of the bridge at Obj Peach in 2007-2008.
The best part of this retelling is the tiny bit about the reporter diving In to save a man.
TY 🙏
Huge props to Sgt Duncan and Major Alfred. absolutely earned those silver stars. Making the decision to save wounded enemy combatants in the middle of a firefight/under fire is absolutely a peak display of humanity.
With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it don't seem like such a bad thing to me to wanna put a little bit of it back together. -Desmond T Doss, Medal of Honor recipient.
i don't know if he actually said the quote, or if its only from the movie, but it sticks with me when i hear of acts of sheer humanity in the face of war
Would love to a series on the Iran-Iraq war for sure!
Love your work TOR. Would you ever consider covering a pre-WWII conflict, maybe WWI, the U.S. Civil War, or the U.S.-Mexican War?
Awesome thanks
I was with 2nd Battalion - 7th Infantry Regiment (Cottonbalers)- 3rd Infantry Division. (2-7). I was in the 2nd Bradley to reach Peach.
Objective Peach ,was indeed quite a battle for the bridge, as he had put it ,it goes back to the bridge at Remagen in WW2, Great vid 👍😊
Be cool if you had a key to describe the icons you use on the maps. Love the channel. For the large scale forces I mean.
The whole project and every video is pretty cool but plz show mechinized warfare and breaching operations in more details
This is the most detailed look at the Gulf War I've ever seen! 🔥⚔😎
Would you ever consider doing videos on the Chechen wars or other post soviet conflicts?
This would be great. There are a few videos but they're heavily skewed against Russia, and it destroys the history aspect of the events.
Disturban just did a video on Beslan, if you're interested.
Kings and Generals has one on the Chechen wars I think.
Invicta has done some Chechen videos as well.
5:50 Jesus. They were just stacking bodies, literally!
On google maps you can still see the footprints of the buildings that were dropped and the bridge is still destroyed
In an old saying: if you dont control the air, you are fighting in the dark.
you should do a video about what happened on nov 19, 2005 in Haditha next.
12:40 derps moves in against 50 cals
Hold on honey…. new Operation Room video just dropped
To think that I joined 3-69 AR after the push....I PCS'ed from Iraq in 2003. Originally I was supposed to be with 3rd ID before the war kicked off only to have a stop movement imposed on all troops that were going to have a change of station. on 16SEP03, I moved to 3rd ID and the very unit that conducted attacks on both the Karbala Gap and Objective peach. the unit I was in was located 1500M from the Iranian border in the town of Mandali and we conducted operations with the PUK. 1-41 FA is also known as "Glory's guns"
My father was 3-69 at the time too. Vitesse et puissance
how do you make these map animations, i really want to use it to help teach people some things but idk how to make the animations
C Btry, 1st BN, 41st FA "Glory's Guns" was the direct support unit for 3/69 Armor. Will there be another video showing the occupation of Baghdad including the thunder runs?
Yes!
"One of the sappers dead pans, 'Oh we're dead.'" XD It's things like this that make comfortable with putting humorous lines in serious situations in my fiction books.
I'm pretty sure the "Thunder Run" was Erwin Rommel's favorite tactic.
Need to take a bridge, best way would be to take both ends at the same time, and they did river crossing with inflatable boats at 13:37? Even doing suppressing fire and with smoke cover?
This guy most definitely have watched A Bridge Too Far lol.
Or was that kind of operation based on the standard US guideline for taking control of a bridge? Idk.
4:00 armoured escort, I mean body escorts armoured tanks.
securing the other side of the bridge for the tanks didn't work out as planned im guessing
sniper shooting the propane tank at 3:31.. wow I thought that kind of thing only worked in video games..
Iraqi T-72 Brigade commander leading from the front is not something you hear a lot of from.
15:50 How comes that the 9 (!) Tanks on the other riverside where not able to absolutely erase that two story building? Later one Javelin did the trick? I dont mean that in any bad way, I am just wondering.
Bro when are u going to fix gunship sequel ww2? Or keep updating it
M1064 heavy mortar carriers, played a huge role in this invasion.
Did you go over the 2 battles for fallujah?
3:33 Wow that guy had an IRL gamer moment.
I cant wait till you publish what we in 1st Battalion 8th Marines did when leaving Haditha Dam!
My father was with 3rd ID, and I must show him this.
I can’t tell you why exactly but that snap transition to the surrendered solider animation from the holding their gun one is hilarious.
Not in a, it’s bad way though so please don’t think that.
If you go to google maps you can see the bridge is still damaged and never fixed.
I saw the same on Google Maps and was wondering why?? It has been more than 20 years and there doesn't seem to be any other river crossing nearby. Glad to see someone else who keeps google maps open during these videos :P
I heard that the wmd-s that they were looking for were actually artifacts that were part of a complex computer made from previous human races (civilization rise and fall and dissolve).. but sadam didn't want to share
Interesting
I bet halfway across that river at least one of the engineers was thinking it was better to wait and install the engines.
It was infantry in the boats with paddles. It was 3rd platoon from my company B co 3-7 infantry.
And yes they were pissed they didn’t have motors and a couple of the boats actually deflated and almost sunk
we ball