Large Liberation of Iraq Veteran Patch 6″ X 5″ with Wax Backing (First Phase: March-MAy 2003) – US Army – USMC

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Large Liberation of Iraq Veteran Patch 6″ X 5″ with Wax Backing (First Phase: March-MAy 2003) – US Army – USMC

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion phase began on 19 March 2003 (air) and 20 March 2003 (ground) and lasted just over one month, including 26 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq. This early stage of the war formally ended on 1 May 2003 when U.S. President George W. Bush declared the “end of major combat operations”, after which the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) was established as the first of several successive transitional governments leading up to the first Iraqi parliamentary election in January 2005. U.S. military forces later remained in Iraq until the withdrawal in 2011.

The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba’athist government of Saddam Hussein.