GWT: 3rd Infantry in continue their advance

(23 Mar 2003) BROADCASTERS PLEASE NOTE UNDER US/UK EMBEDDING RULES AND THE GENEVA CONVENTION THE FACES OF POWS SHOULD BE DISGUISED WHERE IDENTIFIABLE 22 March 2003 1. Tanks moving through desert 2. Mid shot tanks on road 3. Wide of tanks in desert 4. Mid shot tank turret turns 5. Tank moves across shot 6. Soldier waves from tank 7. Pan as tank drives past 8. Reverse shot tank 9. Wide of camels in desert - pull out to tank driving past 10. Iraqis wave to soldiers as tank drives past 11. Wide of tanks through heat haze 12. Wide of tanks 13. Mid shot unexploded mine 14. Wide of tanks - one fires 15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colonel Grinsley, Commander, 1st Brigade 3rd Infantry Division: "We have had small sporadic contact largely not very well organised, but some around and no problems in terms of engagement, we've had a few surrenders and we've suffered no casualties." 15. Two Apache helicopters in flight 16. Wide Apache helicopters over tanks 17. Apache helicopter over US soldier sitting on tank 18. Mid shot Apache helicopter in flight 19. Two Apaches land Night Shots - overnight 22/23 March 2003 20. Military vehicles - shells launched 21. Soldiers next to military vehicle in background 22. Soldiers next to military vehicle Day Shots, 23 March 2003 23. Apache in flight 24. Tank on road - pan to convoy 25. Mid shot convoy halted 26. Travelling shot past US tanks 27. Wide of military vehicles 28. Wide of US soldier talking to POWs 29. US soldiers leading POWs away 30. Elevated shot of US convoy 31. Convoy passes 32. Wide of burning Iraqi anti aircraft gun 33. Mid shot burning gun STORYLINE: US infantry divisions continued their approach to Baghdad over the weekend, securing an airfield at Talil. The airfield was handed over by the infantrymen who took it to the US Marines who will use the facility as a forward operating base. Marine Apache helicopters were being used to support ground troops. Overnight the advancing marines encountered some resistance from Iraqi forces and began shelling around Samawah. The division overcame the Iraqi forces there, sustaining no casualties themselves. On Sunday as the US troops advanced towards Baghdad they encountered sporadic resistance from Iraqi troops. After initial contact Iraqi soldiers began to surrender. Some thirty prisoners of war were taken as the advance continued. The US military said their convoy consisted of some 10-thousand vehicles burning half a million gallons (two million litres) of fuel a day. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...