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The Battle of Donkey Island was a skirmish that occurred on 30 June and 1 July 2007 between elements of the U.S. Army Task Force 1-77 Armor Regiment, the 2nd Battalion 5th Marines and a numerically superior force of Islamic State of Iraq insurgents on the banks of a canal leading from Ramadi to Lake Habbaniyah in the Al Anbar province of Iraq.
Battle of Diwaniya; Battle of Donkey Island; F. First Battle of Fallujah; ... Battle of Hillah (2003) Battle of Husaybah (2004) Killing of Qusay and Uday Hussein; K.
2nd Battalion 5th Marines (2/5 or "Two Five") is an infantry battalion in the United States Marine Corps consisting of approximately 800 marines and sailors. They are based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California and fall under the command of the 5th Marine Regiment and the 1st Marine Division.
Battle of Basra (2007) Battle of Baghdad (2006–2008) D. Battle of Donkey Island; H. Second Battle of Habbaniyah; Battle of Haifa Street; K. Karbala provincial ...
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Battle of Al-Qa'im (2005) Al-Asad Airbase; Anbar campaign (2003–2011) ... Camp Gannon; D. Operation Defeat Al Qaeda in the North; Battle of Donkey Island; F. First ...
The battle was marked with the first death of a U.S. Navy SEAL in Iraq, Marc Alan Lee, August 2, 2006. [7] The battle also marked the first use of chlorine bombs by insurgents during the war. On October 21, 2006, insurgents detonated a car-bomb with two 100-pound chlorine tanks, injuring three Iraqi policemen and a civilian in Ramadi.
The Battle of the Palm Grove (10-13 September 2010) took place during the Iraq War when elements of the Second Advise and Assist Brigade (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), 25th ID of the US Army and 512th Military Police Company US Army supported 200 Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police in a search and sweep operation against 15-25 insurgents planting IEDs in Hudaidy, Diyala Province.