A good friend and fellow flight simmer John at LeanWrite captured an interview with David Zucchino author of the just released book Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad”.
LeanWRITE: Thunder Run:? An Interview with David Zucchino When did you realize this was a story that you had to record in a book for history?
I realized it at a memorial service in late April 2003 in Baghdad for the soldiers of the 2nd Brigade, 3rd ID, who had been killed in action. I started talking to members of the units, who gave me some pretty amazing accounts of combat during the battle for Baghdad. I had been on the April 7th Thunder Run (with Cyclone Company of Task Force 4-64), ending up at the 14th of July Bridge and, later, the Republican Palace. But I had no idea what was happening elsewhere in the city or along Highway Eight.
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