The Thunder Run, US 3rd Infantry Division's Drive to Baghdad ,5th April 2003

[nelson3300]

READ THE TICKER AT 00:34 IRAQ: Has expelled US Troops from Baghdad Airport

"expelled" ? WTF does that mean? Where is the story to that? I have been trying to find information on the Airport battle for days now. I figure this ticker story was the result of an Iraqi Ambush, and here we are just getting footage of the supply line into the capitol.

[123214matt]

What war have we ever lost? None. We were winning in Nam but were forced to come home by the general public

[dancexlifex]

They all are in the US Army. Achtung Panzer is pretty much the same today.

[3chel3]

Indeedy,all tank battles since the summer of 1940 to date have been permutations on what Rommel and Guderian did with their tanks during the May and June of that year.

[SFbashy]

I wonder if these soldiers shown studied any of Erwin Rommels tactic's

[nyrobinson51]

Thank you for posting this video

[3chel3]

@dom86juve

They got blown away via the tanks machine guns as they were trying to ram one of the tanks as far as I can tell.

[RENEGADEROYAL1]

that is how badass america is... we move faster and fight harder than anyone else

[3chel3]

@RENEGADEROYAL1

When I watched it live on the day my jaw was on the floor.

No youtube or liveleek in those days :-)

The people in the studio never spotted that the guys in the big truck where killed and were laying on the ground. There's the same event, without any censorship, at

"Rolling Into Baghdad On An Abrams Tank"

which makes it look a much harder task than the version shown in the UK.

[3chel3]

@RENEGADEROYAL1

yep,remember those videos, at that time, as the tanks thundered across the desert outflanking everything.

Blitzkrieg with 70 ton tanks doing 40 miles an hour!!

[314isabeast]

@RENEGADEROYAL1 damn straight

[ribenababy2008]

@RENEGADEROYAL1 yea but we lose every war in the end lol

[carela21]

I miss the action, what i loved the most was the feeling of war, I was making a difference.

[amen0rrhea]

@carela21 I feel ya...I waste hours watching clips here on youtube, trying to keep it all fresh i guess, but nothing ever will come as close as the real thing. It's so crazy because I never would have thought I'd be saying that

[TheBlackSpider82]

A good book to read regarding the event in this video is 'Thunder Run' by David Zucchino.

[taiko729]

@TheBlackSpider82 in the process of reading it

[case627]

@TheBlackSpider82 awesome book! They're making it into a movie.