 Of note, Army medic Christopher Waiters was eventually awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroic actions that day which saved the lives of two additional American soldiers in the destroyed Bradley vehicle.Another similar attack initiated by a large deep buried mine killed six American soldiers in a Stryker vehicle on 6 May 2007.The house-to-house fighting seen in eastern Baqubah during this offensive was the fiercest fighting in Iraq at the time.