Twenty years ago this month, U.S. Marines began fighting the largest urban battle since the Vietnam War. More than 12,000 American, British and Iraqi troops fought for Fallujah, which had become an ...
house-by-house fighting, 82 U.S. troops died and another 600 were wounded. Fallujah marked the most intense urban fighting the Marine Corps had seen since the Battle of Hue during the Vietnam War.
Erlanger, Ky., Nov. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Many veterans of the Second Battle of Fallujah in Iraq were just teenagers when they fought in the most intense urban fighting the U.S. had seen ...