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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 424-03
June 17, 2003

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today that Pvt. Shawn D. Pahnke, 25, of Shelbyville, Ind., was killed on June 16, in Baghdad, Iraq.  Pahnke was on patrol when he received a fatal gunshot wound.

 

Pahnke was assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 37th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Friedberg, Germany.