The Year in Pictures 2004
PHOTO FOR TIME BY MAX BECHERER / POLARIS
Face to Face
Marine Gregory Sanchez, 21, searches for militants from the roof of a home in Fallujah. The November assault there brought U.S. forces into close-range battles with insurgents, setting a pattern of urban fighting that became the war's next phase
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