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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 770-09
October 05, 2009

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

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

 

Spc. Paul E. Andersen, 49, of Dowagiac, Mich., died Oct. 1 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his camp using indirect fire.  He was assigned to the 855th Quartermaster Company, South Bend, Ind.

 

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