Somewhere in Iraq, April 25, 2003: After covering roughly 250 miles in 18 hours, the V Corps headquarters convoy pulled along the road near a convoy service center for sleep. In the morning the soldiers washed up before they hit the road for the final push to Baghdad. The majority of the soldiers accompanying the 70-odd vehicles in the convoy are either sleeping in their vehicles or out in the desert on cots they have assembled. 

Read the 2003 article on the convoy from Kuwait to Baghdad, and see additional images here.

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