Iraqi MTLB destroyed, 22MAR2003.

Destroyed Iraqi MTLB armed with ZU-23-2 gun system, 22MAR2003.

Destroyed Iraqi T-62 along Highway 6, notice the hull bottom has been blown out and the turret is no longer centered, 04APR2003.

Chinese made Type 69 burning near the An Nu’maniyah Bridge/Hwy-27, 02APR2003.

Same Type 69, different angle.

Same Type 69, photo taken 05APR2003.  It should be noted that the Iraqi army called the Chinese Type 69 a T-55B.

A USMC M1A1 abandoned and scuttled just outside Jaman Al Juburi, first week of April 2003.

Same M1A1.  In the heat of battle if a tank was not recoverable then it was destroyed by its own crew to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.  The irony is that eight years later the U.S. government delivered to Iraq upgraded M1A1s, and in-turn the Iraqi government gave several to pro-Iranian militias.

Another angle on the same scuttled tank.

While it might not look it, the information that came with this photo states that Marine Corps M1A1 #578677 is considered destroyed.  It does look like it is completely bogged down in mud up to its fenders, and being stripped of whatever can be stripped, just outside Sayyid-Abd, 06APR2003.

Also at Sayyid-Abd, this USMC M88A2 ‘Hell’s Wrecker’ was written-off.

Another view of Hell’s Wrecker.

U.S. Marines check-out an abandoned Iraqi T-72, along Route 1, 08APR2003.

U.S. Marines find a dozen abandoned T-72s in a farm area of Iraq (exact location not given), 12APR2003.

Notice the warpage of the barrel of the 12.7mm machine gun on this burned-out T-72, near Al Iskandariyah (Alexandria), 13APR2003.

Iraqi Type 69 (notice headlight groups on both fenders) destroyed just outside Mosul, 13APR2003.

Destroyed T-62, no location given, 13APR2003.

Destroyed Type 69 and T-55 based recovery/engineer vehicle, possibly near the An Nu’maniyah Bridge along Highway 27, 13APR2003.  These are the same vehicles seen burning in this article’s header photo.

A field of destroyed dreams, 16APR2003.  Type 69s and two types of recovery/engineer vehicles.  Chinese made Type 69s can be identified by the headlight housings on each front fender.  T-55s have a single headlight group on the front slope.

25JUN2003, U.S. Army soldiers off-load ammo from a damaged and almost completely buried T-72, outside of Fallujah.

Battle damaged USMC M1A1 sitting in Kuwait, waiting to be sent back to the United States. Information with the photo did not give details about the damage.  14AUG2003.

U.S. Marines use a battle damaged Iraqi BTR-50 for fire response training, sometime in 2004.  This was the fate of many damaged and captured Iraqi armored vehicles.

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 IRAQI HUEY

IRAQI ARMOR, AFTER THE INVASION (including the M1A1M)

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