The Battle For Umm Qasr Correspondent Scott Pelley (CBS) For the Marines of Fox Company, the war began with light and thunder, alongside British Royal Marines. The first casualties that night were their preconceived notions of the enemy. Sergeant Robert Coppola, from L.A., was among the first Americans who rolled through the breach and into the fire. “It was supposed to be a relatively easy target--just a lot of workers, not any resistance at all,” he says. “And then, before we came in, they told us there was a tank regiment in the area and they had a bunch of...