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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 480-04
May 18, 2004

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Sgt. James W. Harlan, 44, of Owensboro, Ky., died May 14 at Camp Anaconda, Iraq, when a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb next to his vehicle. Harlan was assigned to the Army Reserves 660th Transportation Company, 88th Regional Readiness Command, Zanesville, Ohio.

The incident is under investigation.

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