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Casualty Info
Home Town Ganado, TX
Last Address Ft. Hood, TX
Casualty Date Sep 18, 2003
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Location Iraq
Conflict Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)
Location of Interment Assumption Cemetery - Ganado, Texas
OIF/Transition of Iraq (2003-04)/Operation Planet X
From Month/Year
May / 2003
To Month/Year
May / 2003
Description During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Planet X was a US Army mechanized raid conducted on a village near Ad Dawr and Al Dur, 11 miles (18 km) north of Tikrit on the night of 15 May 2003 by elements of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, U.S. 4th Infantry Division and Task Force Ironhorse in search of Ba'ath party members and militants. The name of the operation may have been inspired by the cartoon Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century. As a result of this effort a key member of the former regime, Gen. Mahdi Al-Duri Al-Tikrit Adil Abdallah was captured along with 260 other prisoners, his bodyguards and members of his family.