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The photographer writes:
Top Photo: "A 3rd Armored 155mm M-109A2 self-propelled
howitzer (left) and an M-992 ammunition carrier pause during
the push into Iraq during the opening days of Desert Storm. In
the background can be seen one of the long support trains of
vehicles that supported the heavy punch of the 3AD scouts and
tanks. This was taken on the third day of the battle, as evidenced
by the scrub foliage that only appeared as the unit got closer
to the Euphrates river plain. This is also evidenced by the many
vehicle tracks in the soft sandy soil. During the first two days
of the battle, vehicles stayed in tracks laid down by the engineers
and mine-clearing tanks."
Bottom Photo: "A destroyed Iraqi self-propelled
howitzer (Russian SO-122) was typical of many vehicles that littered
the battlefield. It was hit on the left rear panel (behind the
open hatch), and the U. S. tank round exited the vehicle just
under the right edge of the turret. Many of the vehicles destroyed
were either attempting to flee from coalition forces, or were
sand-drifted into berms facing southeast, the direction Iraq's
forces had imagined they would be attacked from."
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