On the first day of October, the operation to attack Baghdad officially began.
Unlike the attack on Basra, there was no preparatory fire before the assault was launched.
In the early hours of the morning, the vanguard of the 7th Armored Division set out from Alal and crossed the border into Iraq before dawn.
However, it was the 17th Armored Division that fired the first shots.
Around 4 a.m., the assault force of the 17th Armored Division encountered the Iraqi military northwest of Samawa, on the north bank of the Euphrates River.
Belonging to an Infantry Brigade of the Defense Army.
This Infantry Brigade was part of the 5th Group Army stationed in Divaniye.
Unfortunately, the Iraqi military had no capability to withstand the steel torrent of the 17th Armored Division.
The battle lasted less than two hours before the Iraqi military was routed by the 171st Armored Brigade.
