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In reply to the discussion: 13 Israeli soldiers killed overnight in Gaza [View all]bluedigger
(17,086 posts)12. We've lost quite a few more on several different days.
BAGHDAD, Iraq A U.S. helicopter crashed in a desert sandstorm in the early morning darkness Wednesday, killing the 30 Marines and one Navy sailor aboard. Six other troops died in insurgent ambushes in the deadliest day for Americans since the Iraq war began nearly two years ago.
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The deadliest previous incident for U.S. troops was also a helicopter crash: a November 2003 collision of two Black Hawk (search) helicopters that killed 17. Before Wednesday's bloodshed, the most Americans killed in one day came on the invasion's third day March 23, 2003 when 28 troops were killed during the U.S. military's drive to take Baghdad and topple Saddam Hussein.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/01/27/37-troops-killed-on-deadliest-day-in-iraq/
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The deadliest previous incident for U.S. troops was also a helicopter crash: a November 2003 collision of two Black Hawk (search) helicopters that killed 17. Before Wednesday's bloodshed, the most Americans killed in one day came on the invasion's third day March 23, 2003 when 28 troops were killed during the U.S. military's drive to take Baghdad and topple Saddam Hussein.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/01/27/37-troops-killed-on-deadliest-day-in-iraq/
Not that it is anything to take comfort in.
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Serves them right, damn terrorists flying overseas to take part in their Holy War ...
Nihil
Jul 2014
#81
300 dead soldiers in one day, I thought we were talking about dead soldiers. nt
bemildred
Jul 2014
#50
Yeah, WWI was just the last time mass charges against machine guns was considered a good idea.
bemildred
Jul 2014
#68
Grieving for them solves nothing either except to satisfy some misguided
Downtown Hound
Jul 2014
#26