Volesky and rescue teams from the battalion’s Charlie and Alpha Company raced into the city, facing an onslaught of gun fire, rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) and pipe bombs. This is where those troops trained. Here’s more about the ambush that would be known as Black Sunday: More than a year after the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein, American forces still faced violence across the country, but Sadr City had been relatively calm. Killed during a small arms ambush near Ad Diwaniyah around 7 p.m. 2nd Battalion, 37th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Army National Guard's Det. It was April 4th, 2004, and troops from the 1st Cavalry, out of Fort Hood, Texas had just arrived in Iraq. Reuters wire service in Baghdad reported on April 15 that one U.S. Exposed to the enemy like the proverbial fish in a barrel, Miltenberger was credited with saving the lives of three soldiers while treating many other wounded. Within hours, many of the soldiers involved were back battling on the streets of Sadr City to retake the police stations that had been seized. As part of a rescue mission, he and more than a dozen other soldiers were in the rear of an open-bed LMTV truck. Battery C, 3rd Bn, 82nd FA, 1st Cavalry Division, Died as a result of non-battle injuries sustained in a vehicle accident in western Baghdad, 2nd Bn, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, 2-5th Infantry is a 25th Infantry Division, Killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack on his patrol in eastern Baghdad, Killed while operating south of Baghdad in the vicinity of Mahmudiyah by a car bomb, 1st Bn, 63rd Armor, 1st Infantry Division, Killed in improvised explosive device attack near Baqubah, Died in a non-hostile incident in Baghdad, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Bn, 2nd MARDIV, II MEF, Killed in a suicide car bombing near the Marines' camp in Fallujah, 2nd Combat Engineer Bn, 2nd MARDIV, II MEF, Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Jason B. Dwelley, Died when military vehicle hit an improvised explosive device while traveling in a convoy in Al Anbar province, Iraq, Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher M. Dickerson. U.S. troops patrol the deserted streets of the sprawling Shia slum of Sadr City at sunset after a day of tense clashes across the country with supporters of controversial Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, April 4, 2004, in Sadr City, Iraq. The armed forces medical examiner confirmed on March 29, human remains recovered in Iraq were those of Staff Sgt. A new National Geographic miniseries, inspired by Martha Raddatz's book, "The Long Road Home," recounts deadly attack in Iraq and soldiers' heroic battle for survival. On that afternoon, elements of the Mahdi army engaged multiple elements of 2d Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment 2-5 CAV, 1st Cavalry Division, nearly simultaneously throughout Sadr City in northern Baghdad. document.cookie = "__adblocker=; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT; path=/"; "true" : "false") + "; expires=" + d.toUTCString() + "; path=/"; Share on Twitter; ... to the massive Sadr City neighborhood on the outskirts of Baghdad. Troops Retold In 'The Long Road Home' Martha Raddatz' 2007 book chronicling the ambush has been turned into an 8-part National Geographic series. } But a young militant Shia cleric, Moqtada al Sadr, had other plans. “It was multiple rounds constantly,” Capt. They would go on to fight this new insurgency for 80 straight days, and then after a brief respite, would endure another 60. Electrocuted while working on a generator at a Coalition base near Samarra around 10:30 p.m. 596th Maintenance Company, 3rd Corps Support Command, V Corps. ... with most of the casualties happening in Sadr City, the Iraqi Ministry of Health said. Back at the house in the alley, with an Iraqi family still inside, soldiers from the platoon took up positions on the roof. They had been handed a routine mission, Sadr City Attack On U.S. — -- On April 4, 2004, the 2-5 battalion of the 1st Cavalry Division was just taking over responsibility for Sadr City, a large Baghdad slum with a population of 2 million. Eight US troops were killed and 51 more wounded in the bloody battle. Once again, U.S. armed forces appear on the verge of winning a decisive military victory in Iraq – this time in the holy city of Najaf. “I understand now what it means when you go to a veterans’ ceremony and you see the old veterans get together and hug and cry and you never really understood it. DoD Release: Died due to injuries received from hostile fire in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, Naval Medical Center San Diego, 1st MARDIV Det., San Diego, Died in Ashula, Iraq, when individuals who fired a rocket-propelled-grenade attacked his unit, DoD Release: Died as a result of injuries received from enemy action in Al Anbar Province, DoD Release: Died from hostile fire in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, DoD Release: Killed when an improvised explosive device and small arms fire struck his mounted patrol in Baghdad, DoD Release: Died from injuries sustained when his patrol was ambushed near Baghdad on April 8, DoD Release: Died from hostile fire in Iraq, DoD Release: Killed in Baghdad, Iraq, when she became involved in an improvised explosive device and small arms attack, DoD Release: Died in Baqubah, Iraq when he was on an anti-mortar mission and there was an explosion of unknown origin, DoD Release: Died in Baghdad, Iraq, when his patrol vehicle hit an improvised explosive device, DoD Release: Died due to enemy fire in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, DoD Release: Died in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, while his unit was conducting combat operations, DoD Release: Died in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, from injuries sustained during combat operations, DoD Release: Died due to a non-combat related vehicle accident northeast of Ar Ramadi, Iraq, DoD Release: Died in Iskandariyah, Iraq, when his armored personnel carrier hit an improvised explosive device, DoD Release: Died in Landstuhl, Germany, of injuries sustained on March 14 when his military vehicle hit an improvised explosive device, DoD Release: Was unaccounted for since April 9, in Iraq, when his convoy came under attack by individuals using rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire. 1, 2123rd Transportation Co, 2nd Battalion, 12th Armored Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. d.setTime(d.getTime() + 60 * 60 * 24 * 2 * 1000); Casey Sheehan. Iraqis gather near a car that was damaged by U.S. forces during rescue operations after a U.S. Army OH-58 helicopter that made an emergency landing just north of Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood on … More than 60 others were wounded. var script = document.createElement("script"); In the previous six months, only one U.S. soldier had been killed. On April 4, al-Sadr issued a statement calling on his supporters to stop staging demonstration… Sadr City is a dense Shiite area in eastern Baghdad whose boundaries with adjacent Sunni-dominated neighborhoods represent sectarian fault lines. A Mehdi Army fighter looks toward American military positions in Najaf. The tank company commander saw the light, and stopped, bringing the power and might needed to push back the enemy fighters and get the platoon out. May 21, 2008. BAGHDAD -- The men from Task Force 1-41 fought the battle for Sadr City last summer, chasing Al Mahdi militiamen through the slums in 120-degree … Most of them were in their 20s. Sadr City went from being "the safest place in Iraq" in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq to being a stronghold of the Mahdi Army insurgent group of Muqtada al-Sadr. The attack consisted of an IED followed by small arms fire, Killed as a result of an attack on their convoy at approximately 12:25 p.m. near the Baghdad International Airport, Died in an ambush on the south side of Bayji, Three 1st Armored Division soldiers were killed in a coordinated attack on a convoy at about 8:30 a.m., April 9 in north-east Baghdad, Three 1st Armored Division soldiers were killed in a coordinated attack on a convoy at about 8:30 a.m., April 9 in north-east Baghdad, Killed when a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at his M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle near Buhritz in the Tikrit region, Died hostile fire in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, Killed by a mortar attack at approximately 12:20 a.m at Balad Air Base, Died from hostile fire in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, Killed when 15 anti-Coalition insurgents attacked a reconnaissance patrol near Khalis at about 3 a.m. April 10, 1st Bn, 21st Field Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division. Eventually, a tank company came up the adjoining road. As Volesky put it, “Uncommon valor was common that day.” Sgt. The 2008 battle for Sadr City offers a dif-ferent model, in which the challenges were even more formidable than those posed by Grozny and Fallujah. N.B. And I walked down those streets of recreated Sadr City with more than 80 buildings - acres and acres and acres. Maj. Booker, the 2nd Battalion 4th Marines conducted missions know as “IO’s” (Information Operations) prior to the events of April 6, 2004. Then reports arrived of enemy fighters seizing the local police stations in the neighborhood. This story is on tape EF04/0940++QUALITY AS INCOMING++Sadr City - September 22, 2004++NIGHT SHOTS++ Sadr City - September 21, 20041. I found myself looking for IEDs on the streets. On that afternoon, elements of the Mahdi army engaged multiple elements of 2d Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment 2-5 CAV, 1st Cavalry Division, nearly simultaneously throughout Sadr City in northern Baghdad. For soldiers of the 2-5 battalion, it was moment that would define the days to follow. Others were wounded and two of the platoon’s four Humvees were disabled. In the days ahead of April 4, his followers had been protesting in the thousands in Baghdad and other areas.  casualties on both sides and rubbled cities. Young joined the Army just two days after Sept. 11, 2001, and assumed he would be sent to Afghanistan, but on April 4, 2004 he was in Sadr City, Iraq. And I walked down those streets of recreated Sadr City with more than 80 buildings - acres and acres and acres. Died in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, of causes unknown. }, Page last modified: Iraqi, U.S. forces battle al-Sadr's militia CNN, 5 August 2004; 11th MEU Press Release USMC, 31 July 2004; 11th MEU Press Release USMC, 2 August 2004; 11th MEU Press Release USMC, 5 August 2004 In addition to Sgt. Up on the roof, the soldiers were frantically trying to signal their location, using smoke grenades, electronic signaling equipment, even ripping off the sleeves of their uniforms to start a fire. Troops Retold In 'The Long Road Home' Martha Raddatz' 2007 book chronicling the ambush has been turned into an 8-part National Geographic series. As Raddatz notes, “Black Sunday” was only the beginning of the 1st Cavalry Division’s deadly tour. document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(script); Based on the New York Times best-selling book by internationally acclaimed journalist Martha Raddatz, The Long Road Home tells the story of “Black Sunday,” when a small platoon of soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division was ferociously ambushed in Sadr City, Baghdad, in April 2004. Under command of Lt. Col. Kennedy and Sgt. By the end of the night, eight soldiers would be dead and more than 60 wounded -- the largest casualty count in one day for the First Cavalry Division since Vietnam. N.B. Eddie Chen, was fatally injured. It was so powerful. Keith M. Maupin, 24, of Batavia, Ohio. Baghdad, Kut, and An Najaf were scenes of concerted attacks by the Mahdi army throughout Iraq on 4 April 2004. Sgt. insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at their convoy near the southern city of Kut. US forces, from the 759th Military Police Battalion, subsequently regained control of the police stations after running firefights with Mahdi rebels that kille… The son of a powerful and popular Shia leader who was assassinated during Hussein’s rule, he fiercely opposed the American occupation. Back at the battalion’s base, Camp War Eagle, located just outside Sadr City, the new commander, Lt. Col. Gary Volesky, was taking over command as radio reports came in from the platoon detailing the increasing intensity of the fight. 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Killed when a combat patrol was attacked by an improvised explosive device, a rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire near the town of Khan Bani Sa'ad at about 10:45 a.m. His convoy came under attack by individuals using rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire on April 9, 2004. April 4, 2004 was a bloody day for American forces in Sadr City, Iraq. The fight to rescue the team in the alley was just the beginning. This story is on tape EF04/0940++QUALITY AS INCOMING++Sadr City - September 22, 2004++NIGHT SHOTS++ Sadr City - September 21, 20041. Henry C. Risner Robert Arsiaga, Spc. Within minutes, a gunner, Sgt. 77 dead in Najaf mosque battle. 1st Class Jerry Swope stayed down in the alley in one of the remaining Humvees. I took a Gold Star mother who lost her son obviously in this battle in the last night of shooting. Drawing on the continuing instability, rampant unemployment and poverty still plaguing Shia communities, al Sadr was stirring up resentment across the country. DoD Release: DoD announced change in status from missing-captured to deceased on March 31, 2008. Armed Iraqi Muslim Shiites, member of Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr Army of Mehdi militia jubilate near a burning US Army Humvee during clashes in Baghdad's al-Sadr City district, April 4, 2004. 04 April 2004: 2-37th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division: Died of wounds received during a small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenade attack on April 4 in Sadr City: 7 Sgt. It looks so much like Sadr City. One of the veterans of the ambush in Sadr City in April 2004 has revealed that National Geographic’s film The Long Road Home is a shameful piece of propaganda that butchers history and ignored offers of help from the squad who were actually in the firefight in order to present a bastardised and propagandistic version of events.. Ahmed Cason, Spc. The Iraq spring fighting of 2004 was a series of operational offensives and various major engagements during the Iraq War.It was a turning point in the war: before, the conflict was simply US/Coalition versus insurgents, but the Spring Fighting marked the entrance of militias and religiously based (Shi'a and Sunni) militant Iraqi groups, such as the Mahdi Army into the arena of conflict. Members of the newly arrived 1st Cavalry Division and elements of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment were sent out to retake them. After its year-long deployment, 168 of its soldiers … Troops Retold In … Martha Raddatz reflects on her upcoming miniseries about Black Sunday: 'It's different than anything I've ever done', Two Soldiers, Scarred by the Same Battle, Reunite 10 Years Later. Sadr City is part of Baghdad and has an estimated population of 2.4 … In late March 2008, a Shi0́9a uprising in Baghdad0́9s Sadr City district challenged the authority of the Government of Iraq (GoI) at its heart. On March 28, the US overseer of Iraq, Paul Bremer, ordered the 60-day closure of Al-Hawza, a newspaper published by Muqtada al-Sadr’s group, on the charges of inciting violence against the occupation. After his vehicle was hit from behind by a civilian truck and left hanging off the side of the bridge, he attempted to climb out of the vehicle but fell, 333rd Military Police Co, [attached to 16th Military Police Brigade]. Killed when two rockets impacted Camp Cooke at about 5:30 p.m. Killed during a counter-fire mission at Logistics Support Area Anaconda near Balad at about 8:35 p.m. 1st Bn, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, 1-35th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Killed by RPG fire as his convoy conducted a relief in place of the security forces guarding the Diala Police Station in Baghdad, 296th Brigade Support Bn, 3rd BDEe, 2nd ID, Died in Balad, Iraq, of injuries sustained on April 4 in Mosul when her convoy vehicle was hit with an improvised explosive device, 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 1st Infantry Division, Shot to death at a checkpoint near the northern city of Samarra, Troop E(-), 151st Cavalry Squadron, 39th Infantry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. Killed when patrol struck an anti-tank mine near Tikrit at around 10:45 a.m. 1st Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Michael Mitchell and Spc. Eddie Chen, the gunner with the pinned-down platoon, seven other soldiers were killed that evening: Spc. by Jim Lobe Posted on August 13, 2004 August 7, 2009. The primary role of the Marines in these mission swas to “win the hearts and minds” of the locals… The Soldier was pronounced dead at the hospital / DoD Release: Incident took place in Sadr City, Iraq, when his patrol came under enemy small arms fire 42 Pfc. Some of the troops call it "Black Sunday," sad, because it was Palm Sunday. 05-07-2011 02:25:46 ZULU, Killed as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Improvised explosive device detonated where he was setting up an observation point in Baghdad, Killed in action in the Al Anbar Province, 1st Combat Engineer Bn, 1st MARDIV, I MEF, Died from wounds received in action in the Al Anbar Province, 2-37th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, Died of wounds received during a small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenade attack on April 4 in Sadr City, 2-5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Killed when militia engaged coalition forces and ISF with small arms fire and RPGs in Sadr City, Baghdad. There were no reports of casualties. Sadr City Attack On U.S. Killed when improvised explosive device hit his military vehicle near Mosul, 1-37th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Armor Division, Died in the Kadhimyah district of Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained when his convoy was ambushed, Died in the Kadhimyah district of Baghdad, Iraq, when individuals using a rocket-propelled-grenade ambushed his unit, Killed as a result of enemy action in the Al Anbar Province, killed as a result of enemy action in the Al Anbar Province, Died from wounds he received during a rocket-propelled grenade attack on his Bradley Fighting Vehicle at about 12:30 a.m. in the Kadhimyah district of Baghdad, Died due to hostile fire in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, Died due to hostile fire in Al Anbar Province, Petty Officer 3rd Class Fernando A. Mendezaceves, Killed while conducting combat operations in the Al Anbar Province. Frantically called into the radio for them to stop sadr city battle 2004 casualties continuing instability rampant... 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