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Cross, David Clarke
Marine Corps Captain

David Clarke Cross, 34, of Centre, Pennsylvania

Date of death: Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Death details: Killed in the crash of two military helicopters in an antidrug patrol near Zapata, Texas

Source: Virginia Military Dead Database  Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia; Boston Globe (2003)

Theilmann, Robert
Marines Lieutenant colnel

Investigators combed an area near Falcon Heights, Texas where two military helicopters crashed in an antidrug patrol, killing four Marine reservists.

Robert Theilmann, age 47, from Suffolk, New York.

Service era: Iraq

Date of death: Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Death details: Killed when two military helicopters crashed in an antidrug patrol, killed four Marines reservists: Lieutenant Colonel Robert Theilmann, John Walsh, Steven Palombo, David Cross

Source: Boston Globe (2003)

Walsh, John
Marines Major

Investigators combed an area near Falcon Heights, Texas where two military helicopters crashed in an antidrug patrol, killing four Marine reservists.

John Walsh, age 36, from Oakland, Michigan.

Service era: Iraq

Date of death: Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Death details: Killed when two military helicopters crashed in an antidrug patrol, killed four Marines reservists: Lieutenant Colonel Robert Theilmann, John Walsh, Steven Palombo, David Cross

Source: Boston Globe (2003)

Palombo, Steven
Marines Major

Investigators combed an area near Falcon Heights, Texas where two military helicopters crashed in an antidrug patrol, killing four Marine reservists.

Steven Palombo, age 36, from Sterling Heights, Michigan.

Spouse: Hiroko (married March 1998)
Children: Cameron, 2

Service era: Iraq
Schools: Henry Ford II High, Sterling Heights (1984)

Date of death: Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Death details: Killed when two military helicopters crashed in an antidrug patrol, killed four Marines reservists: Lieutenant Colonel Robert Theilmann, John Walsh, Steven Palombo, David Cross
Cemetery: Resurrection in Clinton Township, Michigan; memorialized in Arlington National

Source: Boston Globe (2003), Detroit News (2003), findagrave.com

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