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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 404-96
June 28, 1996

AIR FORCE MEMBERS KILLED IN BOMBING IDENTIFIED (RELEASE #6)

The Department of the Air Force confirmed the hometowns of three more of the previously announced victims in Tuesday's bombing. Senior Airman Jeremy A. Taylor, hometown Rosehill, Kan.; Airman 1st Class Joseph E. Rimkus, hometown Edwardsville, Ill. Both were assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.; and Airman 1st Class Joshua E. Woody, hometown Corning, Calif.. All three were assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

Nineteen Air Force members were killed and 64 remain hospitalized from the terrorist bombing of the Khobar Towers near King Abdul Aziz Air Base, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.